Application Engineer

📢 Our mission? Ivy Partners is a Swiss consulting firm contributing to the development of companies in their strategic, technological, and organizational challenges.

Our goal today is to offer our employees a career that will positively contribute to their development and well-being, by enhancing their skills and offering them real growth opportunities.

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As an Application Engineer for our CPDLC solution at Ivy Partners, your duties will include:

You will play a key role in managing and integrating CPDLC (Controller-Pilot Data Link Communications) solutions, which replace traditional radio communications with digital exchanges between air traffic controllers and pilots. You will be involved in the integration of solutions, conducting tests, and providing system support in collaboration with one of our experts.

You will work autonomously in a self-organized team and in a continuous improvement spirit. A high amount of autonomy and personal commitment is necessary.

Your mission

▪ You write, review and update the Equipment Requirements in alignment with the Product Owner using Polarion.

▪ You create and maintain test cases to provide full coverage of Equipment Requirements using Polarion.

▪ You write automatic test scripts for the test automation environment.

▪ You execute manual and automatic tests in integrated validation environment as part of sprint work during the Build phase or as part of the SAT during the acceptance phase and report test results.

▪ You analyze and describe issues/bugs in the issues Database, and you participate in their classification.

▪ You collaborate with the systems end users and other teams to understand business needs and functional specifications.

▪ You act as the point of contact to clarify identified defects or related Equipment Requirements.

🏅 About you!

Your profile

▪ You have at least 5 years of experience with the principles of communication between air traffic controllers and pilots via datalink/CPDLC/ADSC (Automatic Dependent Surveillance contract) and have a deep understanding of these systems.

▪ You have proven experience in the writing of software specifications and experience in software testing in air traffic control/safety critical domain.

▪ You have a high analytical capacity, and you can understand the end user needs and translate them into requirements for the Development Team.

▪ You have proven experience with test automation tools.

▪ Proven technical experience with the following tools and environments is a plus: Linux, Tcl/Tk, PHP.

▪ Knowledge of standards such as ED153/ED109 or ED12B/C are major advantages for this position.

▪ You are organized with an ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and utilize time effectively.

▪ You are rigorous, and you have a taste for challenge to work in a dynamic environment with good team spirit.

▪ You have a good relationship with users/customers.

▪ Fluent written and spoken French and English is required, German is a plus.

🤝 IVY is also about:

Caring | Concerned about our employees, we guarantee a favorable environment where everyone is valued and offered training and career advancement in Switzerland or internationally.

Trust | Working with us means developing a partnership based on trust, professionalism, and transparency at every moment.

Innovation | We guarantee an effective digital transformation through technological innovation coupled with creativity.

Responsibility | The collective is at the base of everything we undertake, and we take this responsibility seriously by doing everything we can to have a positive impact.