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Software Test Engineer

Software Test Engineer

Posted 5 June by Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd
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£43,659 - £53,582 per annum
Pottington Business Park , Devon
Permanent, full-time
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Posted by Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd
About The Role
Software Test Engineer
Up to £45k Depending on experience + Benefits
Barnstaple (with a mix of office and home-based working)
We are SEA.
Engineered to protect. We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
Join us.
We have a requirement for a Software Test Engineer, providing support to engineering teams on a variety of engineering equipment and products throughout their lifecycle.
What we offer
Your work, your contribution, deserves to be recognised and rewarded. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance:
  • Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
  • 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
  • Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
  • Half day Fridays
  • Reservist in the armed forces receive special paid leave

Family & wellbeing:
  • Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
  • All Staff Bonus
  • Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Wellbeing centre
  • Sports & Social activities
  • Employee Discounts portal - online and instore discounts, travel savings etc
  • Canada Life GP and financial advice
  • Life assurance policy
  • Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
  • Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources:
  • Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
  • Private seated lunch areas
  • Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
  • Onsite showers and toiletries provision
  • Free onsite parking

What you’ll be doing
Supporting with proposals, design and design proving, test, commissioning, in-service support and training, you will work individually and within a team environment of multi-disciplined specialists and engineering disciplines to achieve programme results and customer deliverables in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Define and agree testing strategies
  • Define and manage project test environments, both physical and virtual
  • Requirements analysis
  • Planning, developing and documentation of test cases
  • Executing test cases
  • Producing formal test documentation
  • Managing formal acceptance events
  • Reporting test progress to project teams
  • Manage reporting and clearing of defects
  • Maintain configuration control of test environments
  • Manual and automation test experience required
  • Provide input into defining further automation test tools
  • A hands on approach to testing
 The skills you need
Essential Experience:
  • Experience of testing desktop and web applications, integrated services, multi component systems, and hardware/software integration.
  • Integration testing.
  • Interrogating databases, log files and other repositories of data to confirm the original state and output of software operations.
  • Requirements verification and validation.
    Desirable Experience
  • Experience of using Gherkin, Cucumber, and Visual Studio.
  • Other desktop and web application automation tools experience.
  • Experience with GitLab is also beneficial.
  • Formal Acceptance test activities.
  • Load and stress testing.
  • Testing software on hardware devices.

Join us and be part of something smaller - with 300 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters. 
If you would like to know more, please give our Talent Acquisition Advisor Ethan a call on .
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Reference: 52798958

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