Job Vacancy Senior Software Test Engineer

Job title: Senior Software Test Engineer

Location: Isle of Wight - Cowes - Onsite only

Salary: Up to £60,000 (dependent on skills and experience)

What you'll be doing:

• Participate in the production of automated and manual tests to ensure that the software functionality and behaviour meet the requirements
• Engage in the full test life cycle from unit testing to system integration testing on radar hardware (including digits)
• Design and implement analysis of logged test data to determine that the system requirements have been met
• Work alongside SW engineers to facilitate the creation of Software Functional Proving Builds using code and data components under configuration control
• Assist in the software Verification & Validation activities for all identified functional builds
• Use of models to prove expected behaviour
• Participate in the generation of the Software Test Reports (STRs) and Software Test Plans (STP)
• Contribute to the production and maintenance of the VCRI and using the VCRI to assist proving that the software satisfies the requirements

Your skills and experiences:

• Hold a Computer Science/ Engineering/Numerate degree or be an experienced Practitioner in Software/Hardware testing
• Have experience of all aspects of a software lifecycle and good knowledge of software lifecycle models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• Have considerable experience of using at least one high level programming language (Matlab an advantage)
• Have a comprehensive understanding of configuration management and experience of a configuration management tool
• Have experience with a high-level design methodology (e.g. UML)

The Sampson Radar Software team:

The Sampson Radar Software team is a 30 personnel group that provides support and capability upgrades to the Royal Navy and their products. This role will deliver software products to the customer as part of a team delivering enhancements over the next 10 years, as well as providing ongoing support to existing products. You will have the opportunity to develop and enhance your skills and knowledge, with the potential to lead into more senior positions within a global business

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site