V&V Automation Systems Engineer

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

Position Overview

We are looking for a Device Robotic Automation Engineer responsible for designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining robotic automation solutions for Automated Fare Collection (AFC) devices. The role will combine robotic arm automation, test automation frameworks, device integration, and end-to-end validation to enable continuous and repeatable testing across devices such as Platform Validators (PV), Bus Validators (BV), Gates, TVMs, and other AFC equipment.

The engineer will work closely with V&V, Device Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Automation teams to build scalable automation solutions that simulate real-world passenger interactions and validate device behavior.

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Robotic Arm Automation

• Design, configure and maintain robotic-arm-based automation solutions for AFC devices.
• Develop robotic movements to simulate real passenger interactions, including:
  • Tap/Present fare media
  • Insert/remove cards where applicable
  • Press physical buttons
  • Interact with touchscreens/keypads
  • Scan QR/barcodes
  • Perform repeated tap and transaction scenarios
• Configure robotic arm coordinates, movement sequences, timing and positioning.
• Calibrate the robotic arm for different device types and physical configurations.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, positioning and communication issues with the robotic setup.
• Develop reusable robotic actions that can be applied across multiple device models.

2. Automation Framework Development

• Develop and maintain a scalable device automation framework for robotic and software-based testing.
• Integrate robotic-arm control with the automation framework and test execution engine.
• Create reusable libraries for device actions, fare media interactions, validations and recovery mechanisms.
• Implement parameterized and data-driven automation to support different:
  • Operators
  • Fare products
  • Fare media
  • Device configurations
  • Transaction types
  • Test environments
• Develop mechanisms for automated test setup, execution, validation and cleanup.

3. End-to-End AFC Device Validation

• Automate end-to-end scenarios covering the complete transaction flow from physical tap → device processing → back-office transaction → fare calculation → reporting/reconciliation, where applicable.
• Support testing across different fare media such as contactless cards, mobile wallets, smart cards and QR-based media.
• Validate device responses including:
  • Audio
  • LEDs
  • Display messages
  • Transaction results
  • Device state
  • Error conditions
• Automate positive, negative, boundary and exception scenarios.

4. Device Integration & Interface Automation

• Integrate automation with AFC device interfaces, simulators, APIs and test tools.
• Work with device logs and diagnostic information to identify failures.
• Automate device configuration and test data preparation where possible.
• Support integration with simulators, injectors and other test equipment.
• Develop automated mechanisms for device health checks and environment validation.

5. Continuous Testing

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support regular device builds.
• Enable automated execution against weekly or scheduled device software builds.
• Develop smoke, sanity and regression suites for different device types.
• Support unattended/overnight execution using multiple automation bots.
• Monitor automated execution and investigate failures.

6. Defect Detection & Reporting

• Implement automated failure detection and evidence collection.
• Capture screenshots, device logs, transaction data, videos/images and execution results for failed tests.
• Integrate automation results with Jira or other defect management tools.
• Automatically create or update defects where appropriate.
• Perform initial failure analysis to distinguish between:
  • Product defects
  • Device/robot issues
  • Environment issues
  • Configuration issues
  • Automation framework issues

7. Framework Scalability & Maintenance

• Design automation components that can be reused across multiple AFC programs and operators.
• Maintain a common automation library for device actions and robotic interactions.
• Reduce manual intervention and improve automation reliability.
• Continuously optimize execution time and automation stability.
• Maintain version-controlled automation code and configuration.

8. Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

• Work closely with V&V engineers, Device Engineers, Software Engineers and Systems Engineering.
• Participate in test strategy, automation planning and design reviews.
• Provide technical support during device validation and witness testing.
• Document robotic automation procedures, framework architecture and troubleshooting guidelines.
• Train other V&V engineers on using the robotic automation environment.

Key Deliverables

• Robotic-arm automation scripts and reusable libraries
• Device automation framework components
• Automated PV, BV, Gate and TVM test suites
• Automated smoke/sanity/regression suites
• CI/CD integration for continuous device testing
• Automated test execution reports
• Jira defect integration
• Device logs and failure evidence
• Automation coverage and execution metrics
• Framework documentation and technical guides

Required Technical Skills

Robotics

• Experience with industrial/desktop robotic arms
• Robot calibration and coordinate systems
• Robotic movement programming
• Hardware/software integration
• Troubleshooting robotic hardware and communication issues

Automation

• Strong experience with automation frameworks such as Python, Java, Playwright, Selenium, Robot Framework or equivalent
• Experience developing reusable automation libraries
• API automation and system integration
• Data-driven and parameterized automation
• CI/CD integration

Engineering

• Strong programming/scripting skills in Python or Java
• Git/GitHub
• Linux/Windows environments
• REST APIs
• JSON/XML
• Log analysis
• SQL/database validation
• Jira integration

Good to Have – AFC Domain Experience

• Experience with Automated Fare Collection (AFC)
• Knowledge of PV, BV, Gates, TVM or other transit devices
• Understanding of EMV/contactless transactions
• Knowledge of fare media and fare products
• Understanding of tap-in/tap-out transaction flows
• Experience with device simulators/injectors
• Knowledge of AFC back-office systems and transaction processing

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Worker Type:

Employee

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