Software Test Engineer - Guildford, United Kingdom - Appcastenterprise

Appcastenterprise

Verified Company

Guildford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts.

We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businessescan unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

IntelligenceReveal is the next generation of the cross-source data analytics products for national security and law enforcement agencies.

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Government business unit as a Software Test Engineer We deliver next generation communications and intelligence solutions for law enforcement agencies and compliance solutions for telecommunications companies.

At the forefront of this vision is our globally successful IntelligenceReveal solution.

This suite of tools provides an analytical platform that is designed to deliver complex all-source solutions built upon open, mature, modern and flexible frameworks.

This solution is used to analyze data from one, or many, sources including open source data and the Dark Web.

Working within small focussed teams, you will work on some of the latest technologies to ingest millions of records per second into massively scalable data stores, and then process that data to provide actionable intelligence.

You'll be involved with contributingto system test decisions affecting the integration of existing and future systems, including Big Data technologies and cutting edge security and threat detection systems.

You will join a strong team development team, working at our Guildford office in a relaxed, friendly but technically challenging area of the business.

Depending on your skills, there may also be the opportunity for client facing work, including travel inboth the U.K and abroad.

What you could be doing for us:

Analysing test requirements, designing and producing re-usable test scripts and specifying requirements for environments, data and test tools required
Overcoming development obstacles to deliver quality testing on time
Reviewing test artefacts produced by peers
Reviewing test results and modify the test suite as necessary
Defining and creating test cases from the analysis of nonfunctional specifications
Designing and executing performance test scripts, security tests and define and executing usability tests with the client
Describing to Software Engineers how their work will be, or has been, tested such that the Software Engineers gains insight into the tester's interpretation of the requirements
Execute Sessionbased (Exploratory) Testing where scripted testing is inappropriate or requires augmentation

What background are we looking for?

You will be experienced in defining and developing test cases/scenarios from user stories and/or requirements.
You will be experienced in developing both functional and nonfunctional tests cases.
You will work well within small teams, taking ownership of and delivering high quality tests
You will have experience of system testing, preferably with some exposure to low level (i.e. non GUI) testing
You will have experience of investigating root causes of discovered issues and providing corrective actions either individually or in conjunction with the development team
You will have experience of evaluating test results against customer requirements
You will have experience of Defect Tracking and Knowledge Management software (Atlassian JIRA and Confluence preferred)
You will have experience of creating comprehensive test execution reports with metrics