Software Validation Engineer

at  Renishaw plc

Job Description
About us
At Renishaw, design and manufacture additive manufacturing systems for manufacturing components in a variety of metals using a process called metal powder bed fusion (or laser melting). Our expertise in process development and our experience in using the technology in our own manufacturing operations enable us to provide turn-key and optimised additive manufacturing solutions for a broad range of applications in the industrial and healthcare sectors.
As a Software Validation Engineer at Renishaw, you’ll be responsible for testing, verifying, and validating software products and systems. You’ll ensure that the software meets the functional and non-functional requirements, follows the industry standards and best practices, and complies with the regulatory and quality guidelines. You’ll also identify, report, and resolve any defects or issues that may affect the software performance, reliability, or usability.
Your area of focus will be on the testing and validation of Renishaw’s Additive Manufacturing machine software, specifically the machine software suite (MSS). Working closely with the commercial, design and service teams, to ensure the product requirements are being met for each release of machine software.

About the role

• Design, develop, and execute test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios for AMG products and systems
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, performance, and security testing using manual and automated tools and methods
• Review and analyse software requirements, specifications, design documents, and user feedback to ensure testability and traceability
• Document and communicate test results, test coverage, test metrics, and test status to stakeholders
• Collaborate with software developers, project managers, business analysts, and quality assurance teams to ensure software quality and delivery
• Troubleshoot, debug, and isolate software defects and issues, and provide root cause analysis and recommendations for improvement
• Validate and verify software fixes, patches, updates, and enhancements
• Research and evaluate new software testing tools, technologies, and methodologies
• Follow and adhere to the software development life cycle (SDLC), software testing life cycle (STLC), and software quality assurance (SQA) processes and standards
• Ensure compliance with the applicable regulatory and quality guidelines and requirements

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Previous experience in software testing, validation, and verification
• Proficient in software testing tools, frameworks, and methodologies, such as, Cucumber, etc.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc.
• Understanding of software quality standards, such as ISO, IEEE, IEC, etc.
• Knowledge of software management, and test tracking tools, Dev OPS, Jira, etc.

Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we’re committing to your future career. That’s because we believe in developing our people’s skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that’s highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. (not available at our Castle Donington, Exeter, York & Edinburgh sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 524600 or recruitment@renishaw.com.
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Employment Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R7090 Software Validation Engineer (Open

• Design, develop, and execute test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios for AMG products and systems
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, performance, and security testing using manual and automated tools and methods
• Review and analyse software requirements, specifications, design documents, and user feedback to ensure testability and traceability
• Document and communicate test results, test coverage, test metrics, and test status to stakeholders
• Collaborate with software developers, project managers, business analysts, and quality assurance teams to ensure software quality and delivery
• Troubleshoot, debug, and isolate software defects and issues, and provide root cause analysis and recommendations for improvement
• Validate and verify software fixes, patches, updates, and enhancements
• Research and evaluate new software testing tools, technologies, and methodologies
• Follow and adhere to the software development life cycle (SDLC), software testing life cycle (STLC), and software quality assurance (SQA) processes and standards
• Ensure compliance with the applicable regulatory and quality guidelines and requirement