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Responsibilities:

• Work under OCS WPM and in close cooperation with OCS PDA, Interface manager and SW/HW offshore Team.
• Planning T&C activities in coordination with OCS WPM and liaison with Installation as per the access dates in order to meet the key dates & milestones
• Produce and maintain OCS SW/HW Data and Configuration Management on site and ensure adherence.
• Ensure all OCS configuration and Change Management processes are followed by the T&C team.
• Define T&C strategy activities in coordination with OCS WPM establish requirements related to T&C activities and perform associated cost estimate and schedule
• Ensure the accomplishment of Milestone
• Prepare and perform T&C activities (Documentation, Software Installation, Testing & Commissioning, Survey & Defect Reports.)
• Work on the staging platform to configure and prepare the equipment for onsite deployment.
• Preparation for the test campaign defined by the WPM, this preparation involves all the necessary co-ordination/communication in terms of PTW needs, Test Sheets-Tools preparation, and communication with involved stakeholders/Clients.
• Propose improvement for T&C methodologies and process
• Specify, choose and deploy methodologies (including metrics), tools/platforms necessary to T&C and acceptance activities.
• Ensuring proper execution of PICO tests, field correspondence test, integration tests and acceptance tests.
• Ensure that his/her activities do not impact the operations in any way
• Investigate faults on the system and provide a first analysis.
• Ensure the application of Thales standards and process on the T&C activities
• Work with OCS Systems Engineers to ensure that all the requirements are properly testable – including the testing method – and that full T&C Traceability can be put in place and maintained with the verification test scenarios.
• Work with the development teams and third-party suppliers to analyse the requirements to ensure that they are testable and ultimately capable of being accepted according to the proposed T&C strategy.
• Coordination and interface with different internal/external parties.
• Prepare transition between France/Italy & Dubai Integration/T&C teams (competencies & testing).
• Coordinate with the design team for the responses to Requests for Information (RFIs) and MoM Thales actions when required
• Participate to internal Peer Review (if required).
• Support and/or represent Thales at Client Meetings
• Prepare the setup in the test platform for various releases
• Perform the regression tests in the platform before the site test to ensure that there is no regression
• Provide on a weekly/Daily basis the necessary update of the OCS T&C activities status to the OCS WPM.
• Maintain test results and traceability to requirements
• Generate, analyse & report results from testing.
• Manage problem/defect reporting using Thales defect management tool (JIRA) rectification and clearance.
• Raise the needs in term of resources and alerts to the OCS Work Package Manager.
• Build a high performing motivated team.`

Skills and Experience: 

• Proven experience in OCS/SCADA system Test and Commissioning.
• A good working knowledge of Server software, real-time operating systems, security systems, database management and networking.
• The candidate must have developed through his professional experiences the capability of managing contractors’ relationships.
• Experience with installation , test and/or commissioning work from the railway industry
• PC knowledge (MS Office) 
• Able to work in autonomy, but strong self-aware of limits.
• The capability of coordinating with different stakeholders in international context is required.
• Ability to identify potential problems and propose solutions.

Qualification and Educational Requirements:

• Degree in system/software engineering or equivalent.
• At least 3 years of Software/System Integration experience in project implementation activities
• Experience in Transportation low voltage application domains: SIG, SCADA, and Coms.
• Knowledge on different communication protocols at Network and Application level i.e. TCP/IP, Modbus, HTTP, FTP, LDAP, SNTP, Serial and IEC.
• Expertise on Application Servers for the software deployment, configurations.
• Virtual environment experience/exposure-Highly desired.
• Good analytical skills in order to identify analyse and propose technical solutions to the raising issues.
• Strong Knowledge on System Development Life Cycle.
• Flexible working hour and schedule (example: night or weekend), the position may require continuous night time activities.
• Good analytical skills and reporting skills
• Good command of written and spoken in English

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of Client SCADA Solution will be preferred.
• Experience in Client methods, Tools and process is an advantage.
• Experience in the Middle East is an advantage.
• Following Skill would be of extra advantage:

• Microsoft Server 2003 and higher
• VMWare
• Networking Knowledge is an advantage