Validation Engineer

You are an organized and credible validation professional who can bring structure to complex change, ask constructivequestionsand turn technical inputs into clear assurance and readiness decisions. You are comfortable working across cultures and time zones and can travel to terminal and stakeholder locations whenrequired.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end validation and assurance activities for Edge Platform products,servicesand deployments, including third-party solutions.

• Maintain clear validation plans, assurance checklists, acceptance criteria, entry and exit criteria, and readiness gates aligned to agreed requirements and risk.

• Confirm traceability from requirements and controls through test coverage, results, defects, operationalevidenceand final acceptance decisions.

• Review the quality and completeness of validation evidence, challenge gaps and ensure decisions are supported by objective records.

• Coordinate functional, resilience, performance, recoverability,securityand operational readiness validation with the accountable subject matter experts.

• Facilitate assurance reviews, validation workshops, defect triage, readinesscheckpointsand service acceptance forums.

• Ensure defects, deviations, risks,dependenciesand non-conformances are recorded, owned,assessedand resolved or formally accepted before release.

• Assess operational readiness across support models, monitoring, backup and recovery, documentation, runbooks, service management processes, access,trainingand handover.

• Provide concise, evidence-based readiness summaries and recommendations, including clear conditions, residualrisksand actions where acceptance is not yetappropriate.

• Work with Platform Architects, Product and Engineering teams, Cyber Security, Operations, Service Management, regionalITand terminal IT to achieve quality outcomes.

• Support independent assurance by respectfully challenging assumptions,identifyingcontrol weaknesses and escalating material gaps through the agreed governance route.

• Define andmaintainuseful validation and assurance measures, including evidence completeness, defect status, readiness progress,exceptionsand acceptance decisions.

• Capture lessons learned and turn them into practical improvements to standards, templates,controlsand ways of working.

Essential skills and experience

• Relevant experience in validation engineering, service validation, quality assurance, test coordination, operationalreadinessor service acceptance.

• Experience supporting complex infrastructure, platform, operationaltechnologyor enterprise technology change in a multi-stakeholder environment.

• Practical knowledge of validation lifecycle activities, test planning, assurance methods, acceptance criteria, evidence management, defectgovernanceand readiness assessment.

• Ability to interpret requirements, risks and controls andestablishclear traceability to validation evidence and acceptance outcomes.

• Working knowledge of ITIL practices and service transition or service acceptance governance.

• Broad technical understanding of infrastructure and platform services, with the ability to coordinate validation and assurance across networks, compute, storage, virtualisation, backup, recovery, monitoring,observabilityand cyber security.

• Experience producing validation plans, assurance packs, readiness reports, decision papers,dashboardsor governance updates.

• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and confidenceidentifyinggaps,inconsistenciesand unsupported claims.

• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain evidence,riskand readiness to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence, challenge constructively, follow through on actions and support evidence-based decisions.

• Collaborative and improvement-focused mindset, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

• Bachelor’s orMaster’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Quality Management, Risk Management or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience with risk and control frameworks, cyber security assurance, compliance,auditor regulated environments.

• Experience in industrial, operational technology or critical infrastructure settings.

• Experience with test management, requirements traceability, defect management,reportingor collaboration tools.

• Familiarity with test automation, data analysis or scripting used to improve validation execution, evidencecollectionand reporting.

• Experience defining KPIs, quality measures,dashboardsand operational readiness reporting.
• Experience contributing to continuous improvement, lessons learned, Kaizen or assurance maturity initiatives.