Summary: The Software Test Engineer will join the Modem team within the Product Engineering group, focusing on the design and implementation of a satellite communications Software Defined Radio (SDR) modem. The role involves testing software aspects of modem products and associated communications systems, leveraging experience in software and subsystem integration testing. The position offers opportunities for future developments as project needs evolve.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing software aspects to support the test of satellite modem products based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologies.
• Definition, implementation, verification and validation activities associated with these solutions.
• Work in response to requirements, defining sub-systems, communicating risk and specifying test and verification techniques.
• Occasionally diagnose software problems in the laboratory prototyping environment.
• Develop and maintain skills to support ongoing and future development.

Key Skills:

• Ability to architect, document and implement integration tests.
• Experience of unit and integration test tools (e.g. Robot Framework, GoogleTest, Catch2).
• Proven knowledge of Linux tools in a test automation environment.
• Experience of automating devices via their management interfaces (e.g. SNMP, HTTP).
• Experience of working with Git for version control.
• Desirable: Experience of system and software modelling tools such as Enterprise Architect (SysML / UML).
• Desirable: Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment (e.g. Atlassian Jira, Confluence, BitBucket).
• Desirable: Experience of Jenkins configuration and administration.
• Desirable: Experience in user interface design, implementation and test using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Desirable: Experience of test automation using Node.js, npm, Python.

Salary (Rate): 60

City: Portsmouth

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT