Software Test Engineer

We are looking for Software Test Engineers to drive forward the Defence sector within Electrical and Embedded Systems. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the client project that you support. As a Software Test Engineer, you should have experience of a variety communication protocols – specifically general networking & IP routing protocols.

Responsibilities

• Interact with the senior product design and implementation team
• Update test procedures and understand requirement linkage
• Write unit tests to exercise the software written and where appropriate automate these tests in line with the project/business strategy and Continuous Integration process
• Proactively be part of an Agile Scrum team and attend and contribute to Agile meetings, maintaining and progressing own backlog items in Jira, in-line with personal and team commitments made in sprint planning sessions
• Support peer reviews of others work

Qualifications

Degree / HND / HNC in an applicable Engineering Discipline

Essential Skills

• Experience in software unit testing preferably for real-time and embedded software systems.
• Experience successfully developing certified product in accordance with HGES or its predecessors would be useful
• Experience in developing with languages such as GoLang, C++ or C would be useful
• Experience in one or more of the following: DOORS, GIT/Bitbucket and Jira
• Knowledgeable in IP routing protocols such as RIP & BGP would be useful
• Experience working within a software team in an Agile environment with exposure to Continuous Integration and desirably Continuous Deployment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An ability to work as a member of the team both within the project, and also the Software Engineering Management community in Thales
• Self starter able to work in a proactive manner.
• Able to learn skills on the job with limited coaching.
• Build relationships with the software team and software architect to lead the delivery
• A solid background in computational mathematics, particularly in its application to signal processing, is essential for understanding and implementing complex models
• Experience working with model-driven engineering and handling a mixture of autogenerated and hand-written code is required.
• Technical documentation skills used in the production in software documentation deliverables

Desired Skills

• Self starter able to work in a proactive manner.
• Able to learn skills on the job with limited coaching.
• Experience of container deployment through technologies such as Docker, Podman and/or Kubernetes.
• Applications will need to be packaged into containers for deployment.
• OPUS-C engineers will need to understand how the containers are orchestrated.
• Awareness of MS Windows platform
• Awareness of automated testing
• Previous defence sector experience
• Software Quality Assurance Plugin development

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work

at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people “We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive