Functional Safety Validation Engineer

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 26262-6.12) 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)

Education:

• Degree or relevant equivalent experience preferred.