Senior QA Validation Engineer

Salary: £80,000 – 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong background in software verification, validation, and quality assurance within a regulated industry.
• Experience developing and executing automated and manual test strategies.
• Working knowledge of C/C++ and Python for test development and automation.
• Experience testing complex integrated systems involving software, hardware, and electromechanical components.
• Familiarity with requirements management, electronic quality management systems, and controlled documentation processes.
• Ability to analyse technical issues, identify risks, and develop practical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within regulated product development environments preferred.
• Knowledge of software lifecycle, risk management, and quality management standards relevant to safety-critical systems preferred.
• Experience supporting compliance, validation, and regulatory documentation activities preferred.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Several years of experience in software quality assurance, verification, validation, or test engineering within a regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute software verification and validation plans, protocols, and reports.
• Define and implement test strategies covering unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing activities.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites to support continuous integration and release activities.
• Create and maintain test tools and processes to improve test coverage, efficiency, and repeatability.
• Execute manual testing where automation is not feasible or appropriate.
• Establish and maintain traceability between requirements, design artefacts, risk controls, and verification activities.
• Analyse test results, investigate defects, and support root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ensure testing activities are conducted in accordance with established quality management processes and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Support software risk management activities throughout the product lifecycle.
• Author, review, and maintain validation documentation, including test plans, test cases, protocols, reports, and supporting quality records.
• Contribute to design history, requirements management, and other controlled documentation activities.
• Support internal and external audits, inspections, and regulatory submissions where required.
• Work closely with software, systems, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure product quality objectives are achieved.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering and operations to resolve quality issues and improve development processes.
• Promote best practices in software testing, validation, and quality assurance.

Technologies

• Hardware
• Support
• Python

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Senior QA Validation Engineer to support the development and delivery of complex, safety-critical software systems within a regulated environment. This role is based in Cambridge with an on-site working arrangement and some flexibility on occasion. We offer a salary of £80k to £100k depending on experience, plus up to 10% bonus based on company performance. You will work in a collaborative, fast-paced engineering environment with the opportunity to contribute across software quality, validation, compliance, and process improvement activities. Occasional travel may be required.

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