System Test Engineer

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Job Details:

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare detailed functional test specifications for both device and system tests
• Use industry standard test tools to develop manual and automated tests in a variety of programming languages
• Conduct subsystem, system and user level testing
• Conduct end-to-end testing
• Document tests results and share findings with development teams and project stakeholders
• Liaise with Engineering departments and customers with regard to testing of projects
• Conduct tests both in house and in the presence of the customer
• Prepare and conduct in-house reliability tests


Skills knowledge and experience:

Essential:

• Solid previous experience within a Product test or QA environment.
• Experience of manual and exploratory testing
• Experience of building and executing test cases and plans
• Experience using TestRail and Jira
• Experience of testing methods, including test-driven development and automated testing
• Experience of each stage of the Software Development Life Cycle.


Desirable:

• Relevant industry/product knowledge
• Experience of either London Transport or automotive industry testing
• Knowledge of Serial and TCP/IP comms protocols and configuration
• Agile/Scrum experience
• Participate in interviews for recruitment
• Working knowledge of SQL, Basic UNIX and Confluence.
• Linux Shell scripting
• Use of Project Planning Tools
• Awareness of Smart/Payment Card technology and public key encryption technologies


Education and qualifications

Essential:

• HNC or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline OR relevant industry experience
• ISTQB Foundation

Desirable:

• Degree / MSC in Engineering Discipline
Test automation knowledge or experience