Software Test Engineer

Summary: The Software Test Engineer role at Belcan Workforce Solutions involves working on a 12-month contract within the Modem team, focusing on satellite communications Software Defined Radio (SDR) modem development. The position requires collaboration with various engineering disciplines and offers opportunities for future project developments. The role is hybrid, necessitating at least three days on-site in Portsmouth, and is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop software aspects to support the testing of satellite modem products based on SDR technologies.
• Perform definition, implementation, verification, and validation activities for these solutions.
• Respond to requirements by defining sub-systems, communicating risks, and specifying test and verification techniques.
• Occasionally diagnose software problems in a laboratory prototyping environment.
• Continuously develop and maintain skills to support ongoing and future development.

Key Skills:

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

Salary (Rate): £60.00

City: Portsmouth

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT