Jobs / technical
System Validation Lead
Hyva · Alphen aan den Rijn
NewIND sponsor
What you will do
- Own and continuously evolve the validation strategy, methods, and governance for all connected and digital products within the portfolio, including defining validation plans, risk-based testing approaches, coverage objectives, quality KPIs, and validation acceptance criteria across the product lifecycle.
- Define the long-term vision for validation, automation, test infrastructure, and quality engineering across the organization
- Guide and coach Validation Engineers and Test Automation Engineers by providing direction, priorities, frameworks, and technical leadership without directly executing operational validation activities
- Ensure alignment between product roadmaps, system architectures, and validation approaches
- Collaborate with Product Managers to understand future product capabilities, customer expectations, and quality goals
- Work closely with System Architects, Engineering Leads, and Software teams to ensure validation is integrated early into system and product design
- Establish scalable validation processes, governance models, quality gates, and best practices across multiple development teams
- Define and maintain validation methodologies covering embedded software, cloud services, APIs, mobile applications, and connected ecosystems
- Drive the adoption and evolution of automated validation frameworks, HIL/SIL environments, CI/CD validation pipelines, and system-level test infrastructure
- Support teams in defining validation scope, priorities, risk assessments, and release readiness criteria
- Create transparency through metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting structures to measure product quality and validation effectiveness
- Ensure alignment and collaboration between internal validation teams, external suppliers, and development partners
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and risks within current validation practices and drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment on validation standards, tooling, environments, and quality expectations
- Coach teams on validation maturity, automation strategy, defect prevention, and quality ownership
- Support organizational scaling by defining reusable validation concepts, standards, and governance models
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, validation methodologies, and automation innovations relevant to connected services and digital platforms
- Contribute to the overall digital platform and quality vision of the organization
- Act as a strategic escalation and decision-making point for validation-related topics across the portfolio