Senior Software Validation Engineer

Overview

The Senior Software Validation Engineer creates and executes software tests, conducts quality assurance audits, manages problems, and supports stakeholder relationships, methods, tools, and compliance activities in regulated and life sciences environments.

What you'll do

• Create test cases using in-depth technical analysis of functional and non-functional specifications, including reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability, and portability.
• Create traceability records from test cases back to requirements.
• Produce test scripts, materials, and regression test packs for new and amended software or services.
• Specify requirements for environments, data, resources, and tools.
• Interpret, execute, and document complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards.
• Record and analyze actions and results and maintain a defect register.
• Review test results and modify tests when necessary.
• Report on project progress, anomalies, risks, and issues.
• Report on system quality and collect test-case metrics.
• Provide specialist advice to support others.
• Conduct formal audits or reviews to investigate processes and ensure compliance with organizational standards.
• Plan, organize, and conduct audits for projects, development, or support activities and determine whether appropriate quality control has been applied.
• Collect and examine records, analyze evidence, and draft formal compliance reports.
• Assess risks associated with findings and non-compliances and propose corrective actions.
• Implement stakeholder engagement and communications plans.
• Manage problems and issues, resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
• Collect and use customer and stakeholder feedback to help measure stakeholder-management effectiveness.
• Help develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Collaborate on analysis of user and customer needs and represent this analysis in your work.
• Influence customers, suppliers, and partners at account level.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure user needs are met throughout.
• Provide informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.
• Advise and guide adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
• Tailor processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools.
• Review and improve the usage and application of methods and tools.
• Initiate and monitor actions to investigate and resolve problems in systems, processes, and services.
• Determine problem fixes and remedies and assist with implementing agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Investigate, define, and resolve complex issues.
• Communicate fluently orally and in writing and present complex information to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Plan, schedule, and monitor work to meet time and quality targets.
• Facilitate collaboration between stakeholders with common objectives.
• Select appropriately from applicable standards, methods, tools, and applications.
• Maintain awareness of security and seek specialist security knowledge or advice when required.
• Maintain awareness of developing practices and their application and take responsibility for driving your own development.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties as requested.

What you'll need

• Proven experience managing and leading or mentoring colleagues.
• Proven line management and leadership management experience.
• Experience using tools to communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Experience of regulated environments, such as GxP or Financial, or relevant testing experience from another transferable domain.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies, preferably Scrum.
• Understanding of UML, Object Orientated, Data Modeling, Process Modeling, and/or other development methodologies.
• Experience working in and knowledge of the life sciences sector.
• Solid professional experience in the same or a very similar role.
• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline, including Maths, Science, Engineering, or Computing, or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience.
• Fluent English.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.