Verification and Validation Engineer

Overview

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference?  If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career. 

At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do.  We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world.  We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day. 

Are you in?  Read on for more details about this particular role.

Responsibilities

MSA Safety’s V&V team is looking for a technically savvy, engaged, and inquisitive engineer with a passion for product quality, and continuous improvement. If you like technology, have a customer-focused mindset, and are imaginative, creative, and like to find ways to break things or troubleshoot them, we want to hear from you!

What you bring

• You want your work to be meaningful and you want to launch great products
• You are passionate about quality and have a continuous improvement mindset
• You are comfortable with technology and innovation
• You’re motivated by a collaborative environment, and by helping others with the goal of reaching larger goals together
• You enjoy working within a global team and with a diverse group of engineering disciplines
• You are organized, detail-oriented, and a good communicator
• You are not afraid to bring ideas and take charge of implementing them

What we offer

• You will work for a technology company, which develops solutions that protect and save lives
• We actively invest in you to grow your craft and your career, working with you to offer customized development options and opportunities based on your interests and aptitude
• As a member of a highly-skilled, global team working on diverse product offerings, you will gain experience with a variety of technologies, tools, and development/verification techniques
• You will be empowered to be creative, generate new ideas, think outside the box, and actively propose/implement solutions that help our team and company get better
• Start-up-like, flexible environment with the stability of a 112-year-old company, providing highly technical, innovative and challenging work while maintaining a good work/life balance

What you will do

You will be working in our global V&V team helping to launch a wide range of life-protecting systems, which

include a combination of hardware, embedded software, cloud, and mobile apps. Your work will be diverse and will involve a spectrum of V&V activities depending on your skills and experience.

• Understand our products and how our customers use them
• Analyze requirements for testability, traceability, completeness, and unambiguity
• Help define verification and validation strategies for given products and solutions
• Interpret product and technical requirements to design comprehensive test plans utilizing industry-standard verification/validation practices and tools
• Develop or assemble equipment, fixtures, and other apparatus to execute tests
• Compile and analyze test results, make recommendations on next steps
• Collaborate with product design teams for product testability and test strategy activities
• Help troubleshoot issues as needed
• Create test scripts, participate in automated and manual software testing and debugging efforts as required
• Mentor and train colleagues and stakeholders in V&V tools, techniques, and processes
• Depending on your experience and interest develop and maintain test automation, software simulators, and tools

Opportunities for up to 5% domestic or international travel

Qualifications

Experience and skills required

• Hands-on validation/verification/testing experience for technical products, preferably including electronics and embedded software
• Experience working with industry-standard tools related to validation and verification
• Experience evaluating, creating, or managing product requirements
• Familiarity with various testing methodologies
• Strong communications skills

Experience and skills that are a plus

• Software development or scripting experience (especially Python)
• Test automation development
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Familiarity with industry-standard wired and wireless protocols
• Experience with software and hardware debugging tools (debuggers, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, audio test equipment, etc.)
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, Travis

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant Engineering discipline from an ABET-accredited program

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