Test Analyst

Job Title: Test Analyst

Location: Plymouth, Bristol or Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76630

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Test Analyst at our Devonport Royal Dockyard, Babcock Technology Centre or Leicester sites.

The role

As a Test Analyst, you’ll join our Digital Solutions team, where you'll play a pivotal role in maximising the value of data-driven systems that support critical defence programmes. Your work will help ensure the quality, reliability and performance of digital solutions used to support submarine operations, contributing directly to the safety of submarines and submariners.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to work within a collaborative digital and engineering environment, applying both manual and automated testing techniques while developing your expertise in modern testing tools, agile delivery and software quality assurance.

• Analysing requirements and design documentation to produce test estimates, test plans, test cases and test scripts.
• Designing and executing functional and non-functional testing activities to ensure quality and system performance.
• Identifying, recording and managing defects through to resolution while working closely with developers and stakeholders.
• Producing and communicating test progress, quality metrics and test outcome reports to project stakeholders.
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and utilising tools such as Azure DevOps, Playwright and Selenium.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Test Analyst

• Experience producing test estimates, test plans, test cases and test scripts from business and technical requirements.
• Experience collaborating with developers, business analysts and stakeholders within agile delivery teams.
• Experience managing defects throughout their lifecycle, including prioritisation and resolution tracking.
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools such as Playwright and Selenium, alongside API and backend testing.
• Experience using SQL and communicating quality metrics, risks and delivery status to stakeholders.

Qualifications for the Test Analyst

Essential

• ISTQB Foundation Certificate.

Desirable

• Additional testing, automation or software quality qualifications.
• Experience working in a regulated, defence or engineering environment.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 05/11/2026