Senior Engineer, Verification and Validation

Change peoples 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 peoples lives.

Job Overview & Purpose
Cochlear develops products systems and tools incorporating electromechanical hardware and software components. The Systems Verification and Validation (V&V) team works to protect the experience and trust that customers have in Cochlear with a final independent evaluation of these products and systems.

The Senior Verification and Validation Engineer is responsible for defining and leading high quality comprehensive and user-centric V&V test methods coverage and evidence to demonstrate that the products systems and V&V tools meet intended specifications and customer needs within a complex domain or project.

This role is also responsible for ensuring that their own and their teams V&V outputs are delivered to project timelines identifying and driving continuous improvements in testing and processes to maximise efficiency.

The Senior Verification and Validation Engineer uses multidisciplinary approaches and collaboration with other V&V engineers design engineers project management and quality engineers to ensure high-quality product and system releases to Cochlears customers.

Key Accountabilities
1. System and Product Design Verification and Validation (V&V)
Enable the release of high-quality systems and products with electromechanical hardware and software components by defining and leading design verification and validation activities and processes to ensure that intended specifications and customer needs are met.

• Ensure through cross-functional collaboration and review that design inputs (including needs requirements) are verifiable and validatable.

• Define comprehensive technically sound and efficient test coverage. Produce and maintain V&V plan documents for complex or unprecedented projects.

• Develop improve and maintain test methods test cases and protocols of high quality (scientific robust and scalable) for complex or unprecedented designs

• Execute and coordinate execution of automated and manual tests according to plans and using a range of advanced test methods and equipment.

• Produce test artifacts (including test results other objective evidence) and reports of high quality (accurate and comprehensive).

• Troubleshoot issues encountered in testing and debug test issues (including method setup equipment script issues).

• Serve as subject matter expert in a complex domain or project able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences meaningfully and concisely.

• Produce and maintain high quality documentation of V&V deliverables under change control to comply with Quality Management System (QMS).

• Provide peer review and approval of V&V documents.

2. Project Delivery and Communication

• Define and lead delivery of required V&V tasks to meet project timeline and other stakeholder requirements.

• Communicate V&V delivery status and risks to project stakeholders actionably and concisely.

• Contribute V&V needs (including skills equipment and resourcing) and provide inputs to project plans and suggest risk mitigation strategies to protect quality and schedule.

• Initiate escalation to project management and resource managers to propose risk mitigation strategies where required to protect schedule and resolve issues.

3. V&V Processes and Tools

• Introduce maintain and continuously improve tools used in V&V.

• Contribute to maintain and continuously improve V&V test automation.

• Establish manage and maintain inventory required for V&V delivery.

• Follow V&V processes and QMS procedures. Identify and drive continuous improvements of V&V processes to increase V&V output quality and efficiency in at least one complex domain or project while ensuring compliance with regulatory standard and business requirements.

4. Team Leadership

• Share and seek knowledge ideas and experiences with V&V and project teams.

• Collaborate and negotiate and influence cross-functionally (including with other V&V engineers design engineers and project managers) to achieve the best customer and business outcomes.

• Train mentor and supervise V&V team members to ensure that objectives of the V&V team and the V&V requirements of Cochlear are met.

Team Role
Individual Contributor

• Follow relevant quality procedures to deliver quality products and services and identify and support the implementation of continuous improvement. Undertake additional quality responsibilities (e.g. audit) when appropriately trained to undertake these responsibilities.

• Contribute ideas on systems and process methods to improve deliverables.

• Work safely complying with all safety procedures rules and instructions; and reporting workplace hazards incidents or injuries to manager.

Key Incumbent Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years experience in a commercial R&D environment delivering consumerfacing systems or products or involvement in at least one full product lifecycle from concept to release.

• Minimum of Bachelors Degree in a relevant Engineering or Science discipline (e.g. Electrical Electronics Mechatronics Engineering).

• Clear verbal and presentationbased technical communication including excellent English proficiency.

• (Desired) Leading design verification and validation activities.

• (Desired) Experience in Agile or Scrumbased development environment.

• (Desired) Experience working under regulated environments and international standards (e.g. medical device regulations).

• (Desired) Application of design principles (e.g. systems engineering requirements management).

• (Desired) Research and analytical skills including experimentation and critical analysis.

• (Desired) Complex system problem solving using systems thinking systematic approaches and crossfunctional inputs.

• (Desired) Task definition and allocation across teams with varied experience levels and availability.

• (Desired) Stakeholder management and negotiation.

• (Desired) Proficiency in broad range of test methods and equipment (e.g. bench and usability testing).

• (Desired) Project risk management within medium to largescale projects.

• (Desired) Identification of corner and edge cases.

• (Desired) Application of control and automation principles (e.g. statebased programming PLCs robotics).

Required Skills:

• Strong attention to detail.

• Data collection and data or statistical analysis.

• Formal documentation (e.g. reports spreadsheets).

• Application of scientific approaches (e.g. hypothesis testing).

• Programming or scripting language (e.g. Python C) with debugging capability.

• Clear concise and accurate written and visual technical communication.

• Problem solving and troubleshooting particularly for electromechanical hardwaresoftware systems.

• Proficient and safe use of test and measurement instrumentation (e.g. digital oscilloscopes multimeters sensors and measuring tools).

Cochlear Malaysia provides shared services to support Cochlears 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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