Our client is seeking a Software Testing Engineer for a contract within their Environment Simulators team based in Stevenage.
The Simulation Software department is at the forefront of developing simulations for their Weapon System and sub-systems teams using the full development life cycle and agile methodologies. The simulations follow best practices and capability to ensure products are rigorously tested, fit-for-purpose, and ready for delivery.
As a Software Testing Engineer, you aren&8217;t just finding bugs; you are a Quality Advocate ensuring our simulations are mission-ready.
Reporting to the Group and Project Leads, you will be responsible for the end-to-end software testing and proving lifecycle for simulation software releases and software defects. Your responsibilities will span planning, conduct, and reporting:
Test/Proving Planning
- Understanding Customer needs and requirements from a proving perspective.
- Understanding design and architecture including defining software test bed requirements.
- Developing comprehensive software test plans, writing, and running test sets, designs, and specifications.
Test/Proving Conduct
- Regular progressive software testing assurance during software development cycles.
- Leading testing of software defects.
- Liaising with our Support team in order to provide logs/data analysis when issues are identified.
- Demonstrate compliance to requirements.
- Executing formal software qualification testing.
Test/Proving Reporting
- Providing regular updates to project leads and stakeholders on software functionality.
- Writing detailed software test and analysis reports for certification purposes.
- Supporting the software delivery and release process, including final certification activities.
Technical Knowledge
- Software Test automation
- Understanding software Logs/Data analysis
- CI/CD software pipelines
- GitLab, JIRA, scripting, IBM PLM/ ALM/ EWM /Doors
- Knowledge of Agile Scrum
- Ability to understand (or experience with) compliance and regulatory requirements
- AI test automation tooling (Desirable)
- Software Simulation/Emulator knowledge (Desirable)
- Linux Network Configuration and analysis tools (Desirable)
Additional
We seek a Software Test Engineer who has worked in an aerospace / defence environment / industry within the last 12 months or who can obtain security clearance (SC level minimum)
