Description

Requirements failures don't announce themselves early. They arrive late as failed acceptance tests, supplier escalations, architecture decisions that need to be reversed, and release dates that are always too tight. I've spent 12+ years (6+ years on each side of the V-model) making sure they don't get that far:

• 1,000+ system, software and sensor requirements authored, governed, and traced across SAE L3 Autonomous Driving and commercial vehicle programmes at Porsche Engineering.

• 1,000+ test cases, 300+ automated HIL scenarios built from zero at JLR - 2 weeks of full test suite execution became 2 days of continuous, unattended 24/7 automated HIL runs; a 4-day manual vehicle network configuration validation routine - covering diagnostic configurables across every JLR ACC-equipped model from 2015 onwards - was cut to 30 minutes.

• €900,000 in validated cost avoidance - pre-acceptance automated diagnostics and software readiness checks before every supplier handover - €30,000 per release, 6 releases per year, 5 consecutive years.

• 300+ engineers trained on ADAS awareness over 6 years (Porsche Academy).

• 70+ engineers trained on Requirements Engineering in 2 years (Porsche Tech-Hours).

Each side made the other sharper. Validation data taught me exactly what makes a requirement untestable before it reaches a test bench. Requirement ownership taught me what test engineers actually need from a specification to work without guesswork. The result: requirements that survive contact with real systems, real testers, and real suppliers.

IREB CPRE and ISTQB CTFL certified - Requirements Engineering and Testing - because the boundary between the two disciplines is where the expensive mistakes happen.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

Romanian
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Porsche Engineering,
ADAS SW & SYS Requirements Engineer
April 2020 - Today (6 years and 2 months)
Cluj-Napoca, CJ, Romania
• Stakeholder elicitation, functional decomposition, and governance of 1,000+ SYS, SW, and sensor requirements (Radar, nanoRadar, LiDAR) across SAE L3 Autonomous Driving (ISO 26262, SOTIF / ISO 21448) and commercial vehicle programmes (150+ requirements within a 3-month delivery timeline) - CodeBeamer, Sphinx Needs, DOORS, Visio, Git, MIRO.

• Led the department RE team and chaired the Porsche Engineering international “Requirements Management Expert Group” - cross-functional stakeholder management, technical direction and career guidance across concurrent ADAS and non-ADAS programmes (Agile/V-Model environment); simultaneously delivering ISO 26262 Functional Safety Requirements (TSC/TSR) - decomposing system failures and defining safety measures across the full event-chain architecture.

• Trained 300+ engineers on ADAS topics over 6 years (Porsche Academy) and 70+ engineers on Requirements Engineering in 2 years (Porsche Tech-Hours) - all training content independently designed and delivered.

• Authoring the company-wide RE guideline - currently in active development, synthesizing IREB, INCOSE, ISO 26262/29148, ASPICE, and NASA best practices into the internal baseline for requirements quality across the organization.

• Designed the DEBRIS Framework (Defect-Based Requirements Improvements) - a root-cause traceability system linking test failures back to originating requirements, enabling targeted specification fixes from real-world and edge-case evidence rather than reactive full-spec rewrites.

• Introduced automated requirement maturity metrics - replacing subjective status flags with objective, quantifiable governance
Requirements Management Requirements Engineering Team Leadership Technical Leadership ADAS
AROBS Transilvania Software,
System Test Engineer
January 2020 - April 2020 (3 months)
Str. Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
•Bi-weekly acceptance test cycles in a Scrum delivery cadence - consistently identifying 5-10 defects per release cycle while expanding the test suite to maintain coverage effectiveness against a continuously evolving feature set.
•Designed and executed HIL acceptance test cases for eCalls (automatic/manual), OTA registration and SW flashing, Remote Door Lock/Unlock, Remote Windows, Geofence, and Backend Data Collectors - Monaco, CANoe, CAPL, Linux CLI, ADB Shell.
•Reviewed and raised Change Requests against Telematics Feature Requirements in DOORS/JIRA - maintained full traceability between system requirements and test use-cases; created feature documentation and activation/deactivation procedures through complete release cycles.
Test Engineering Test Execution Acceptance Testing Change Management
Jaguar Land Rover,
ADAS SW & SYS Requirements Engineer → Requirements Engineering Lead
November 2018 - January 2020 (1 year and 2 months)
Gaydon, England, United Kingdom
•Built JLR’s ADAS V&V test automation framework from zero - migrating the team from Excel-based tracking to ASPICE L2-compliant specification in DOORS, with full automation on Vector CANoe/CAPL and dSPACE AutomationDesk; 1,000+ test cases and 300+ HIL scenarios across the complete ADAS feature suite (ACC, FCW, IEB, TJA/ICA, TJP, ASL, ISL).
•2 weeks of full-suite HIL testing → 2 days, 24/7 continuous automated execution.
•4-day manual vehicle network configuration validation routine - interrogating diagnostic configurables (model year, driving-side variants, sensor fitment, ECU recognition) across every JLR ACC-equipped model - was cut to 30 minutes - same rigor, fraction of the time.
•€900,000 in validated cost avoidance: pre-acceptance automated diagnostics and software readiness checks before every supplier handover (€30,000 per release, 6 releases/year, 5 consecutive years).
•Authored ASPICE L2-compliant test specifications in DOORS for all major features - maintained end-to-end traceability from stakeholder requirements through test evidence, automated HTML test report and network log generation across all releases.
•Delivered Vector CANoe/CAPL scripting training to ADAS V&V engineers across both tenures - building sustainable in-team automation capability that outlasted the projects.
Test Strategy Test Engineering Test Automation Frameworks Test Automation Defect Management