System Integration & Test Engineer

Overview

In this role you will design, develop, and maintain test scripts and reporting across manual and automated suites on a flagship UK programme. You will work in a hybrid Waterfall/Agile environment to ensure test quality and traceability for mission-critical systems. You will analyze requirements, create risk-based test approaches, and report on progress and defects within a collaborative test team. You will contribute to test design, execution, and process improvements to support complex, multi-system integrations and national security objectives.

Pay / Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave
• Flexible benefits including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships
• Flexi-Time Working
• Cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Detailed Test Plans and Test Reports (Draft and Final)
• Develop Test Designs, Test Cases, Data, and Tooling
• Contribute to Requirements Traceability Matrix for Test attributes
• Perform Test Execution, Analysis, and Reporting
• Raise and track Defects based on test outcomes
• Provide progress status to Test Leads
• Quality checks on Test materials (scripts, data, evidence, defects)
• Identify and recommend Test Process improvements

Key requirements

• Awareness of Testing Lifecycle and testing types (Functional, Integration)
• Systems Integration experience (3rd party components integration)
• Ability to estimate test efforts for preparation and execution
• Experience creating Test Designs and Cases from requirements and designs
• Experience with test execution, results analysis, and status reporting
• Familiarity with hybrid workload management and bug tracking (e.g., Jira, Bitbucket)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivation and collaboration to address dependencies and gaps
• Experience in working within a larger test team
• Willingness to obtain UK Security Clearance (minimum 5 years UK residency)

• Effective communication
• Self-motivation
• Collaborative mindset
• Manual and Automation testing
• Test scripting and test tooling
• Risk-based testing

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