Description
Role Summary
6 month contractor.
Key Responsibilities
- Capture and define requirements through a disciplined and rigorous approach to requirements management and ask challenging questions about the requirements to ensure understanding
- Construct and implement embedded engineering solutions including detailed design, contribution to technical reviews and performance optimisation.
- Generate, perform and validate results of verification plans, test plans, analysis, test case design and other specific kinds of tests including flight tests, system tests, development tests, unit tests, component tests, integration tests, regression tests, stress tests, acceptance tests and qualification tests as appropriate.
- Generate work products conforming to all aspects of technical and quality requirements by following robust configuration control, review and change management processes
- Assist in the compilation of plans, estimates, task lists and risk management plans in support of programme objectives, project estimates and bids
- Perform internal project activities and work with external sub-contract organisations, whilst maintaining focus on achieving goals with a positive can-do attitude
- Undertake any other engineering related tasks commensurate with this post as required by the IP Team Lead.
- To prepare and manage system requirements and design specifications following analysis of customer requirements in accordance with legislation, human factors and business needs.
- To assist in the conduct of Trade Studies to determine optimum system hardware and software architectures.
- To prepare Requirements Specifications for each hardware or software Configuration Item identified within the chosen architecture
- To prepare system test plans to adequately verify and validate system requirements at minimum life cycle cost
- To conduct Validation and Verification Activities as required to secure product acceptance
- To prepare Declarations of Design and Performance against Requirements Specifications
Role Requirements
Essential
Job Related Experience/Skills
- Experience of capturing and analysing system requirements and of validating and verifying that the system that has been produced as a result meets the original specification
- Understanding of typical hardware and software architectures within single-box systems and good awareness of hardware and software design processes.
- Ability to follow a disciplined and rigorous approach to requirements management
- Confidence to challenge the requirements and architecture of the system at each level of the hierarchy.
- Ability to write integration and verification plans, define detailed test procedures and perform systems verification activities.
Role Specification
- Communication
- Experience of working with customers, suppliers, other engineering disciplines, quality, manufacturing and other company departments.Can communicate with different levels of staff.
- Experience of report writing
- Team work
- Experience of working in teams
- Understands the way their work impacts on other departments
- Business Awareness
- Knowledge of current Systems Engineering standards and techniques.
- Qualifications and Experience
- Degree in systems engineering or another engineering discipline with at least three years relevant experience.