Software Test Engineer chez Expleo

Overview

We are looking for Software Test Engineers to drive forward the Defence sector within Electrical and Embedded Systems. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the client project that you support. 

As a Software Test Engineer, you should have experience of a variety communication protocols – specifically general networking & IP routing protocols.

Responsibilities

• Interact with the senior product design and implementation team
• Update test procedures and understand requirement linkage
• Write unit tests to exercise the software written and where appropriate automate these tests in line with the project/business strategy and Continuous Integration process
• Proactively be part of an Agile Scrum team and attend and contribute to Agile meetings, maintaining and progressing own backlog items in Jira, in-line with personal and team commitments made in sprint planning sessions
• Support peer reviews of others work

Qualifications

• Degree / HND / HNC in an applicable Engineering Discipline

Essential skills

• Experience in software unit testing preferably for real-time and embedded software systems.
• Experience successfully developing certified product in accordance with HGES or its predecessors would be useful
• Experience in developing with languages such as GoLang, C++ or C would be useful
• Experience in one or more of the following: DOORS, GIT/Bitbucket and Jira
• Knowledgeable in IP routing protocols such as RIP & BGP would be useful
• Experience working within a software team in an Agile environment with exposure to Continuous Integration and desirably Continuous Deployment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An ability to work as a member of the team both within the project, and also the Software Engineering Management community in Thales
• Self starter able to work in a proactive manner. Able to learn skills on the job with limited coaching.
• Build relationships with the software team and software architect to lead the delivery
• A solid background in computational mathematics, particularly in its application to signal processing, is essential for understanding and implementing complex models
• Experience working with model-driven engineering and handling a mixture of autogenerated and hand-written code is required."
• Technical documentation skills used in the production in software documentation deliverables

Desired skills

• Self starter able to work in a proactive manner. Able to learn skills on the job with limited coaching.
• Experience of container deployment through technologies such as Docker, Podman and/or Kubernetes. Applications will need to be packaged into containers for deployment. OPUS-C engineers will need to understand how the containers are orchestrated.
• Awareness of MS Windows platform
• Awareness of automated testing
• Previous defence sector experience
• Software Quality Assurance
• Plugin development

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive