Change people’s lives and love what you do! Cochlear develops world-leading medical devices that help people hear. As a top 100 medical device company and market-leader in implantable hearing devices, more people choose a Cochlear-branded cochlear implant system than any other. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives.
The Senior Customer Software Verification and Validation Engineer is accountable for ensuring the output of complex projects are delivered in high-quality and on time to our customers by defining, executing, and reporting tests as required. The role has an important contribution to the product’s quality, reliability, and customer focus design experience as per approved functional and technical specifications within Cochlear Quality Management System framework.
This role reports to V&V Manager and the role works with V&V Lead, development teams, other V&V Engineers, Product Owners, Business Analyst, Software Delivery Managers, and Quality Engineers (when applicable). The senior V&V Engineer executes the V&V plans and partners with the development teams within a squad setup whilst ensuring the high-standard regulatory/quality compliance.
Accountabilities
- Understanding the functional and technical specifications in the context of Customer Software Products’ ecosystem and wider Cochlear Products’ ecosystem
- Creating test cases based on planning meetings, new feature/functions introduction, modification on existing feature/functions, and other relevant testing triggers
- Generating and maintaining input and output documentation for all verification and validation activities, including testable requirements assessment / designs input and V&V plan, and outputs from verification and validation activities, including documents and results
- Preparing frontend/backend/electronics/end-to-end test environment based on Test Coverage Review minutes and testing scope relevant to the target release
- Understanding the V&V test protocol and Test Coverage Review minutes to prepare the testing activities using required large arrays of test hardware and software combinations
- Ensure to execute test cases using correct hardware combinations required by test definition/Test Coverage Review minutes
- Producing reports that comply with Cochlear’s Quality Management System and specific regulatory standards (when applicable)
- Setting up correct test environment (manual/automated) as required by test definitions/Test Coverage Review minutes and escalate any potential issue related to the test hardware
- Training, mentorship, and guidance for other team members to ensure that objectives of the V&V team and the V&V requirements of project are met. Assume personal responsibility for the success of the team.
Key Incumbent requirements
- Tertiary qualification in relevant field of computing / engineering / science, or at least 4-6 years’ experience in a full lifecycle commercial software, delivering verification and validation for consumer facing devices in a successful product launch.
- Experience with test management tool and defect management tool
- Demonstrated experience in executing verification processes (frontend/backend/end-to-end), paying great attention to detail and meeting product quality standards.
- Experience in testing delivery within complex projects in compliance with quality/regulatory management system
- Solid understanding of test methodologies, Software Integration Testing and Software development life cycle / V-model
- Demonstrated ability to define test conditions for given requirements and designs
- Experience in functional testing
- Experience with electronics and electronic test equipment (Desirable)
Cochlear Malaysia provides shared services to support Cochlear’s global operations. The growing team of professionals in Malaysia provides critical support in areas such as IT infrastructure and applications, development and testing, business intelligence development and support, procurement, customer service, service and repairs and returned device analysis engineering.
If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.
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