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I’m Simon, a Senior QA and Verification Engineer with 35 years of experience across MedTech, aviation, and defence. My work centres on ensuring that complex, safety‑critical systems behave exactly as intended — through disciplined requirements analysis, structured verification, and clear, evidence‑based reporting. I’ve led verification activities across full system lifecycles, from early requirements refinement to qualification and regulatory compliance under MDR and FDA expectations. I’m pragmatic, reliable, and used to working in international, cross‑functional engineering teams. My focus is always the same: deliver clarity, reduce risk, and make sure the system is genuinely ready for release.…I’m Simon, a Senior QA and Verification Engineer with 35 years of experience across MedTech, aviation, and defence. My work centres on ensuring that complex, safety‑critical systems behave exactly as intended — through disciplined requirements analysis, structured verification, and clear, evidence‑based reporting. I’ve led verification activities across full system lifecycles, from early requirements refinement to qualification and regulatory compliance under MDR and FDA expectations. I’m pragmatic, reliable, and used to working in international, cross‑functional engineering teams. My focus is always the same: deliver clarity, reduce risk, and make sure the system is genuinely ready for release.

Simon Foster

QA Engineer, Architect, Product Designer, +1

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I’m Simon, a Senior QA and Verification Engineer with 35 years of experience across MedTech, aviation, and defence. My work centres on ensuring that complex, safety‑critical systems behave exactly as intended — through disciplined requirements analysis, structured verification, and clear, evidence‑based reporting. I’ve led verification activities across full system lifecycles, from early requirements refinement to qualification and regulatory compliance under MDR and FDA expectations. I’m pragmatic, reliable, and used to working in international, cross‑functional engineering teams. My focus is always the same: deliver clarity, reduce risk, and make sure the system is genuinely ready for release.…I’m Simon, a Senior QA and Verification Engineer with 35 years of experience across MedTech, aviation, and defence. My work centres on ensuring that complex, safety‑critical systems behave exactly as intended — through disciplined requirements analysis, structured verification, and clear, evidence‑based reporting. I’ve led verification activities across full system lifecycles, from early requirements refinement to qualification and regulatory compliance under MDR and FDA expectations. I’m pragmatic, reliable, and used to working in international, cross‑functional engineering teams. My focus is always the same: deliver clarity, reduce risk, and make sure the system is genuinely ready for release.

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I’m Simon, a Senior QA and Verification Engineer with 35 years of experience across MedTech, aviation, and defence. My work centres on ensuring that complex, safety‑critical systems behave exactly as intended — through disciplined requirements analysis, structured verification, and clear, evidence‑based reporting.

I’ve led verification activities across full system lifecycles, from early requirements refinement to qualification and regulatory compliance under MDR and FDA expectations. I’m pragmatic, reliable, and used to working in international, cross‑functional engineering teams. My focus is always the same: deliver clarity, reduce risk, and make sure the system is genuinely ready for release.

Skills

C++

.NET

Microsoft Office

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

German

Advanced

Norwegian Bokmål

Intermediate

Work Experience

Systems Engineer – Medical Devices at Gerresheimer AG, Olten

October 1, 2019 - September 1, 2025

Systems Engineer in a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining the D-mine® Pump on the market; updated and maintained system architectures and requirements to MDR; reviewed test plans and results; ensured traceability; produced traceability matrices; supported verification documentation; reviewed technical documentation.

Systems Engineer at Rheinmetall Air Defence – Zurich (fixed-term through SVA)

August 1, 2018 - April 1, 2019

Developed Software Requirements Specifications for a High Energy Laser System. Authored Product Specification for a new 30mm cannon system. Supported verification planning by ensuring requirements were testable and traceable.

Requirement Specialist at Daedalean AG – Zurich (fixed-term through SVA)

November 1, 2017 - April 1, 2018

Updated system-level requirement specifications for autonomous flight control systems. Created templates for hardware and software requirement specifications. Supported early-stage verification planning for safety-critical aviation software. Conducted market research and produced Concept of Operations reports.

Health-Related Leave

January 1, 2017 - October 1, 2017

Health-related leave and recovery.

Requirement Specialist at Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, Stans

July 1, 2014 - December 1, 2016

Defined system architecture for Flight Training Device (FTD) software. Analysed and authored system and software requirements. Co-developed test strategy for FTD development programmes. Wrote detailed test cases for multiple software subsystems in XML. Specified a Quality Manager test tool for automated test execution and reporting.

Consultant System Engineer at Rheinmetall Air Defence

May 1, 2011 - November 1, 2012

Reviewed system specifications; advised the Chief Engineer. Developed engineering tests for radar and electro-optical tracking sensors. Performed requirements analysis and defined engineering safety tests. Executed and documented system-level tests and analysed results. Demonstrated improved traceability using DOORS.

Principal System Architect at GE Aviation – Cheltenham, UK (through Elan)

July 1, 2010 - October 1, 2010

Produced software requirements for cockpit displays for the COMAC C919; used DOORS 9.2 to produce package-level requirements; produced the functional design of the Cursor Function for the Functional Description Document.

Contractor at Broadgate Networks Ltd.

August 1, 2000 - June 1, 2009

Delivered software and systems engineering services across full lifecycle projects including requirements engineering, software design, validation and integration.

Contractor at Tigra Associates Ltd.

December 1, 1995 - April 1, 2000

Provided software development, testing and modelling services for defence and telecommunications clients including BAe Systems, CSC, BT Cellnet and Matra BAe Dynamics; focused on real-time and legacy system verification, RAMS analyses and system integration.

Defence Systems Engineer at British Aerospace Ltd.

October 1, 1990 - September 1, 1995

Early career roles in defence systems engineering; worked on RAMS analyses, system design documentation, integration and trials support, and safety analyses including fault-tree and hazard assessment; contributed to operator manuals.