Location : Bengaluru (Whitefield)

Experience : 8 to 16 years

Domain : Aerospace and Defence - Safety-critical embedded software

Work details : Work from office, Bengaluru (Whitefield). 3 openings.

About the company : A leading global Aerospace and Defence company with a growing engineering centre in Bengaluru.

The opportunity : Hands-on technical leadership of verification and validation for safety-critical embedded software under DO-178C (DAL A and DAL B). You stay in the work: test architecture, test design, test development, execution, coverage analysis and verification closure, while giving technical direction to the engineering team. Permanent role with a financially strong global A and D employer known for long-term stability.

What you will do :

Hands-on test architecture and development :

- Define verification strategies and test architectures for DAL A and DAL B applications.

- Develop and review High-Level and Low-Level Requirement test cases and test procedures.

- Build and run tests yourself in VectorCAST and related tools.

- Define test environments, benches, methods and verification approaches.

- Improve test automation and verification process efficiency.

Hands-on verification and validation :

- Execute and oversee requirement-based testing on target hardware and test benches.

- Perform functional, boundary, regression and requirements-based testing.

- Analyse failures, find root causes and support debugging.

- Review test results and keep verification evidence technically correct.

- Join technical reviews and verification closure.

Structural coverage and DO-178C compliance :

- Drive and personally take part in structural code coverage analysis.

- Analyse and resolve Statement, Decision and MC/DC coverage gaps.

- Perform or review data and control coupling analysis.

- Keep requirements traceability and verification evidence complete.

- Meet DO-178C objectives for DAL A and DAL B.

- Support certification reviews, audits and closure of findings.

Technical leadership :

- Guide and mentor software test engineers.

- Review test designs, procedures, results and coverage reports.

- Set best practices and technical standards for verification.

- Coordinate with software development, systems engineering and certification.

- Stay close to complex technical issues until they are closed.

What you bring :

- Extensive hands-on DO-178C verification and validation experience.

- Strong understanding of DAL A and DAL B certification requirements.

- Expertise in High-Level and Low-Level Requirement testing.

- Strong practical experience in test architecture and test strategy.

- Tech Stack : VectorCAST, IBM DOORS, Embedded C / C++, PC-Lint, Git, JIRA.

- Strong understanding of Statement, Decision and MC/DC coverage.

- Experience in data and control coupling analysis.

- Ability to lead technical reviews while staying hands-on in test engineering.

- B.E. / B.Tech or M.E. / M.Tech in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical, Aerospace or a related engineering discipline.

- A stable career history and intent to stay for the long term.

Why join :

- Permanent technical leadership role with a leading global Aerospace and Defence company known for stability.

- Hands-on ownership of DAL A and DAL B verification, not a pure people-management seat.

- Clear path to shape verification practice as the Bengaluru centre grows.