Mechatronics & Control Engineer

The position

Important note: the role requires Dutch located residents only.

The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) has deep knowledge of testing strategies in combination with the relevant domain knowledge. The

Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) knows how to convert nonfunctional requirements into (economic) test plans whereby the Mechatronics &

Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) looks at the risks, as well as the costs and benefits.

The V&V is responsible for the test development specification, execution, automation, and documentation. The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) is responsible for test case quality and test coverage according to the V&V strategy and must inform the internal and external stakeholders about the V&V status.

Description of the work and responsibilities

Feature

• The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) initiates the test strategy and supports the development teams by the execution of the tests with respect to the acceptance criteria and the non-functional requirements.
• The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) is responsible for creating requirements to improve testability of the element under test (design for testability) and supports improving requirements regarding testability.
• The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) is responsible for the creation of test specifications and test reports and supports the agile team by executing the tests. The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) evaluates the test basis for testability, reports detected issues/deviations and supports the agile team with the analysis. In which the Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) determines what and how testing will be done.

Infrastructure

• The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) defines and implements the necessary infrastructure for automatic and manual testing, defines and develops requirements for the test infrastructure/environment.
• The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) sets up the test environment (including environment for test automation), drives automatic and manual testing.

Optimization

• The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) proposes solutions to improve one’s own activities and ensures one’s own knowledge within the area of expertise is up to date or comes up with proposals to extend if necessary.
• The Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) reviews the V&V strategy and gives improvement proposals on the V&V strategy.
• If the element under test does not fulfil test entry criteria (e.g. maturity) the Mechatronics & Control Engineer (Verification & Validation) will abort the execution and decline untestable requirements.

About the company

The company is a competence center for High Precision Motion Systems. Their electronics and software manage complex movements, to nanometer accuracy, in the machines of our customers.

About you

Qualifications

A technical Master degree;

• Knowledge of Control Engineering and familiar with topics like bode plots, Nyquist Diagram and loop-shaping;
• Practical abilities/ skills and able/ interested to work hands-on on the hardware of complex machines.
• Knowledge and interest in one or more of the following fields: electrical & electronics engineering, systems & (motion) control, mechatronics, (real-time)
• embedded systems, machinery/ industrial automation;
• You have affinity with (embedded) software development (for example C, C++, C#) and/or PLC programming;
• Knowledge of tools, such as Matlab/ Simulink
• You have excellent knowledge of the English language.