Responsible for / Key responsibilities
Responsible for assuring the Systems Engineering (in-process verification and validation) and delivery of conclusive evidence via System Integration, Verification and Validation (IV&V) processes and activities.
Ensure the correctness and completeness of work products and solutions, from the requirements phase onwards, executing an evidence creation strategy in order to progressively gain internal and external acceptance.
Create and maintain IV&V artefacts such as Strategies, Plans, Procedures, Compliance Matrices and Reports, to progressively assure the desired outcomes.
Carry out IV&V responsibilities in accordance with IV&V processes and industry practices, so that internal, qualification and acceptance events are completed to an agreed level of maturity.
Lead the cross-discipline development of any supporting test equipment/rigs/fixtures, via a lifecycle approach; creating requirements, support the design, development, testing of and maintenance, enabling the associated development and in-service test events.
Responsible for all safety and security aspects relating to IV&V events and facilities used by the project.
Actively participates, and is a key stakeholder, at engineering design reviews and project gates/reviews, owning the preparation, delivery and resulting actions of TRR.
To support the Qualification activities, to include in house and external test houses.
Responsible for the utilisation of any external IV&V facilities/test houses, i.e. organising interoperability testing, collaboratively developing test harnesses/fixtures etc. with test houses.
Actively contributes to improving processes, tools and techniques that to increase the adoption, quality and efficiency of SE, IV&V engineering.
Provides specialist knowledge and support to the wider engineering team.
Exemplifies, leads, mentors and coaches IV&V to engineers and non-technical resources; sharing knowledge willingly and constructively to aid consistent application of IV&V principles, processes and methods.
Manage security of information as defined in the Security Aspects and Government regulations.
The role is expected to provide Line Management, Technical Management or Subject Matter Expert responsibilities:
o Line management of a team of systems engineers (2-6), responsible for their development, training and approval of the team's requests (e.g. annual leave etc.).
o Technical management of a team of systems discipline engineers (1-5) on a project, their tasking and being responsible for the quality of their technical delivery and adherence to schedule and budget.
o Subject Matter Expertise, and recognised as an expert in a specific subject matter, such as a specific product/technology/tooling/practice type or area.
Essential Qualifications / skills /requirements
Has extant/recent SC security clearance
Is flexible to travel within the UK to support external stakeholders, test houses and customers.
Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance
Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or have applicable defence industry experience.
Knowledge of Systems Engineering/V&V experience of solutions formed of Hardware, Software and Firmware components.
Has designed and delivered special to type test equipment to meet the diverse requirements generated across multi-concurrent projects.
Safety and security management for test environments including laboratories, able to build a business case to ensure that test environments are suitably available, safe & secure.
Demonstrable experience of INCOSE/ISO 15288 Systems Engineering of complex solutions and delivered IV&V in accordance with ISO 29119.
Desirable Responsibilities
To be familiar with environmental facilities and their operation under the guidance of environmental test team
Assesses tasks to define Basis of Estimate costing for bid and change processes.
Actively reviews professional publications; champions Systems Engineering/IV&V industry standards; active member and promotes related professional organisations.
Experienced in the implementation of test facilities/equipment in relation to ISO 17025.
Desirable Qualifications / skills /requirements
INCOSE member - ASEP/CSEP
IV&V/Test related certification/recognition.
Experienced in test automation, frameworks and marriage with manual testing for an overall test campaign.
Environmental, EMC, EMI, TEMPEST etc design for and/or test experience
Modelling to understand test scope, test environment requirements and/or to validate.
Scripting languages: JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, Rest, MySQL.
Development approaches, iterative, incremental, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), hybrid and similar models.
