SP Senior System Integration and Test Engineer

Overview

You will lead integration and testing for complex in-house and third-party components, ensuring system-level performance within schedule and cost constraints. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team to plan, execute, and document test activities, and to verify that subsystems integrate into a cohesive solution. The role involves on-site delivery at Ampthill, UK, with opportunities to influence qualification and verification trials in the defence sector. You will communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, supporting formal product sell-off and acceptance. This is a hands-on, collaborative role at pace with cross-site collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute comprehensive test plans, cases, and reports
• Coordinate test campaigns to meet specifications and timelines
• Validate test data for accuracy and completeness
• Author and sign off test documentation and provide status updates
• Manage test facilities and liaise with contracted sites
• Develop and integrate automated test scripts within the tool ecosystem
• Integrate large-scale solutions within a system-of-systems context
• Collaborate with a large multi-disciplinary engineering team and participate in verification trials
• Ensure safety and data/equipment security during testing
• Support field deployments and travel to trial sites as required

Key requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven experience creating test plans, cases, and reports for system integration/verification
• Hands-on experience in qualification/verification trials, preferably in defence-related systems
• Experience developing strategies to support formal product sell-off and acceptance
• Familiarity with instrumentation (thermocouples, strain gauges, accelerometers) and data acquisition tools
• Ability to investigate and report faults in complex systems

• Strong communication with stakeholders
• Independent work-planning and estimation
• Cross-functional collaboration
• System integration/verification testing
• Test planning and execution
• Data acquisition and instrumentation

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