Job Title: Functional Safety Validation Engineer
Location: Whitley, Coventry
Rate: £33.88ph via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £25.26ph PAYE
Employment Type: Contract (31.03.2026)
Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week
Reference: J35955450
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)
Skills:
- Technical knowledge of ISO26262 [Part 6]/[Parts 4&5].
Education:
- Degree or relevant equivalent experience preferred.
Additional Information:
This role is INSIDE IR35
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