Our OEM Client based in Coventry, is searching for a Functional Safety Validation Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a 12-month contract position initially until 31st March 2026, with the potential for further extensions.
Umbrella Pay Rate: Up to £33.64 per hour.
Duties:
- This function is responsible for the functional safety verification of battery management controls software.
Level:
- A Specialist Professional (P4) is a recognized subject matter expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.
Responsibilities typically include:
- Understand and co-ordinate activities between all Stakeholders in order to deliver safety-related verification activities.
- Ensure common approach and common technical solutions where possible across all projects.
- Ensure that ISO26262 Part 6 / Parts 4&5 are satisfied.
- Problems faced are difficult and often complex.
Tasks include:
- Using requirements to derive test cases.
- Write test cases in gherkin (BDD) and stored within X-Ray, a subset of JIRA.
- Execute manual test cases on HiL Rigs (Dspace, vector or NI) and create test report.
- Create defect tickets for software failures or other issues faced.
The test case author shall:
- Create the tests based on the system requirements (reviewed, approved, and baselined), considering the requirements verification criteria.
- Take into consideration the test methods and the methods for deriving the tests (according to ISO (phone number removed).12) before test creation, mentioning them in the test.
- Provide detailed test description (test purpose) in natural language form pre-conditions test flow or test sequence post-conditions evaluation criteria link between the tests and the system requirements.
- Assure the consistency (through a report - traceability report) between tests and requirements, evaluate the eventual existence of suspect flags (indication that the test must be updated due to requirement change).
- Store the generated report under version control (object under review).
- Freeze (baseline) the content of the test.
- Inform the Review Stakeholders to proceed the review activity (automatic notifications through state change e.g. Review)
Skills:
- Technical knowledge of ISO26262 Part 6 / Parts 4&5 .
Education:
- Degree or relevant equivalent experience preferred.