Test Engineer

DV Clearance required

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a small team to deliver testing in a key part of the programme ensuring milestones are met on time and to sufficient quality.

• Work within the I&V leadership team to manage the delivery of I&V services on the programme including addressing issues, resourcing, planning and reporting.

• Review requirements & design documents and seek clarification where appropriate to identify full scope of testing.

• Create and review test plans and test designs, working with third party suppliers to ensure requirements coverage.

• Create, review and optimise Testing Processes.

• Document test results and defects

• Produce Test Reports and report on interim progress.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Test experience with ISTQB Foundation Certificate in software testing 

• Excellent understanding of the Testing Lifecycle and the different types of testing such as Functional and Integration Testing.

• Demonstrable Systems Integration experience including integrating 3rd party systems or components.

• Experience of taking ownership and driving delivery of testing projects.

• Able to understand existing Test Process and identify improvements and efficiencies.

• Experience of creating Test Cases based on requirements and design documents.

• Strong oral and written communication skills – ability to communicate with technical and non-technical team members.

• Self-motivated and willing to speak to colleagues to find out missing information;

• Ability to identify, troubleshoot and debug issues across interfaces;

• Ability to analyse and review test evidence from suppliers;

• Enthusiastic, proactive, troubleshooting attitude with a willingness to learn new technologies;