FUSA TEST ENGINEER - J

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:J

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.
  

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