Validation Lead

Compunnel

$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in validation engineering or a similar role
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Proficient in automation scripting languages
  • Demonstrated ability in bug advocacy and defect triaging
  • Solid understanding of CPU/GPU architecture
  • Knowledge of product lifecycle and project management principles
  • Relevant certifications like ISTQB or UST GAMMA preferred

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate with customers to prevent escalations
  • Conduct technical interviews to gather project requirements
  • Perform validation and root cause analysis of product failures
  • Document product behavior and testing standards
  • Mentor junior and senior validation engineers
  • Attend customer meetings and communicate results effectively
  • Manage task deliverables ensuring quality and timeliness

Benefits

  • Opportunities for continuing education and certification
  • Chance to mentor and train peers
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Exposure to diverse projects across technology domains
  • Innovative and supportive company culture
Full Job Description
JOB SUMMARY
Expectations from this role:
1. Work with customer to ensure there are no escalations
2. Coordinate with the team effectively
3. Conduct technical interview for the project requirements
4. Perform validation and root cause analysis
5. Perform escape analysis
6. Isolate/ packetize the failures to correct component
7. Attend customer meeting and communicate effectively on the requirements/ results.
8. Locate the product failures and report it in test repository and bug tracker
9. Learn technology, business domain, system domain individually and as recommended by the project/account
10. Complete the certifications for the role (like ISTQB, UST GAMMA certifications)
11. Ensure the product and validation complies with the defined SLA

Key Responsibilities
Typical performance measures:
Perform defect triaging
Adherence to schedule and timelines
Number of post delivery defects
Number of non-compliance issues
SLA turnaround of production bugs
Define productivity standards for project
Completion of all mandatory training requirements

Performance Areas:
Manage Project:
Manage task deliverables with quality and targeting completion timeframe.
Estimate:
Estimate time, effort, and resource dependence for one's own work and for others' work.
Document:
Create component level / product behaviour documents
Create test reporting templates, BKMs and knowledge sharing documents for team
Status Reporting:
Report status of tasks assigned
Compliance with validation standards and process
Mentoring:
Mentor senior validation engineers by providing on job facilitations
Host classroom training sessions for the junior validation engineers

Required Qualifications
Skill Examples:
Good presentation skills and diplomacy
Should possess good bug advocacy skills
Automation scripting skills
Able to perform severity and priority identification of sightings raised
Ability to estimate effort, time required for own work and for the junior engineers
Ability to perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environment
Work in a team environment
Good written and verbal communication abilities
Good analytical skills
Knowledge Examples:
Able to understand the product lifecycle and deadline
Should possess excellent domain knowledge
Good CPU/ GPU architecture knowledge
Possess very good knowledge of the product

Preferred Qualifications
Certifications
ISTQB, UST GAMMA certifications

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