£60 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Summary: The Software Test Engineer role involves testing software aspects of modem products and associated communications systems, focusing on integration testing within complex systems. The position requires developing software to support testing of satellite modem products based on Software Defined Radio technologies. The role is hybrid, with an initial contract duration of 12 months, and is classified as inside IR35.
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:
- Robot Framework, Google test or Catch2.
- Linux in an Embedded environment.
- Ability to architect, document and implement integration tests.
- Experience of unit and integration test tools (eg Robot Framework, GoogleTest, Catch2).
- Proven knowledge of Linux tools in a test automation environment.
- Experience of automating devices via their management interfaces (eg SNMP, HTTP).
- Experience of working with Git for version control.
- Experience of system and software modelling tools such as Enterprise Architect (SysML/UML) is desirable.
- Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment would be beneficial (eg Atlassian Jira, Confluence, BitBucket).
- Experience of Jenkins configuration and administration.
- Experience in user interface design, implementation and test using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Experience of test automation using Node.js, npm, Python.
- Desirable Comms, Radar and Satellite experience; C++ is the main code used, some experience would be useful.
Salary (Rate): £60
City: Portsmouth
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT