System Integration & Test Engineer
System Integration & Test Engineer
Location: Whiteley, with flexibility to work from home dependent on business demands
Salary: £47,600 - £61,000
The Role:
We currently have a vacancy for a Delivery Area Integration and Test Engineer working on a flagship programme in the UK.
The role will include responsibility for Designing, Development and Maintenance of test scripts and Test Reporting using both industry standard Manual and Automation test suites and custom developed frameworks.
The testing process will follow a hybrid Waterfall and Agile development and release process that supports critical customer mission goals around National Security using manual and automated testing techniques and tools.
Responsible for conducting analysis of requirements and designs, and from this developing a risk-based test approach to provide test assurance in support of our change pipeline. Employees may also support business process improvements or systems analysis for missions, systems, and fiscal requirements
Key responsibilities:
- Contribution to Detailed Test Plans, Summary of Test (Draft), Summary of Test (Final), Test Completion Reports
- Development of the Test Designs, Test cases, Test Data and Test Tooling
- Contribution to the Requirements Traceability Matrix for Test specific attributes (e.g. Verification Methods, Test Stages, Verification Approach, Test Evidence and Test Compliance (Test Results)).
- Conduct of Test Execution tasks, along with Analysis and Reporting
- Raising Defects based on test Execution outcomes, and updating defects from the result of testing
- Status reporting of progress to Test Lead(s)
- Quality checks of Test materials produced by Leidos Test engineers (Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Evidence, Defects)
- Identifying Test Process improvement and making recommendations to the Test Lead(s)
Key Skills:
- Awareness of the Testing Lifecycle and the different types of testing such as Functional and Integration Testing.
- Awareness Systems Integration including integrating 3rd party systems or components.
- Able to understand existing Test Process and identify improvements and efficiencies
- Provide test estimation for test preparation and executions tasks
- Awareness of creating Test Design and Cases based on requirements and design documents.
- Experience of test execution, test results analysis and status reporting
- Knowledge or experience Hybrid (Agile, Iterative & Waterfall) workload management and bug tracking (e.g. Jira, BitBucket, or similar).
- Moderate oral and written communication skills - ability to communicate with technical team members
- Self-motivated and willing to speak to colleagues to address dependencies, knowledge gaps and progress defects
- Experience of working within a wider test team to achieve test outcomes
- Self-motivated and willing to speak to colleagues to find out missing information.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Functional and Non Functional testing of integrated systems.
- Continuous Integration/ContinuousDelivery tools.
- Negative testing concepts and risk assessment reporting.
Clearance Requirements: Successful candidates will be required to be willing and able to obtain UK Security Clearances - this requires a minimum of 5 years residency in the UK
What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
- Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
- Flexi-Time Working
Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are:
Leidos UK & EUROPE - we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is agrowing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
£47,600.00-£61,000.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.