Systems Test Engineer

Job Summary: This role is responsible for the testing of systems and software in accordance with designated standards and procedures, ensuring any defects or problems against defined performance measures are identified, resolved, or escalated to the development team.

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 test results and share findings with development teams and project stakeholders
• Liaise with the Engineering departments and customers with regard to the testing of projects
• Conduct tests both in-house and in the presence of the customer
• Prepare and conduct in-house reliability tests
• Coordinate and oversee the work of Test Technicians, collating results and reporting defects
• Prepare and conduct environmental tests
• Prepare and issue test reports
• Perform Defect Reviews
• Prepare and maintain the test configuration environments
• Support with the automation of testing activities
• Comply with Cubic s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular, comply with the code of conduct, quality, security, and occupational health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their Manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Skills, knowledge, and experience:

Essential:

• Solid previous experience within a Product test or QA environment.
• Experience of manual and exploratory testing
• Experience in building and executing test cases and plans
• Experience using TestRail and Jira
• Experience with testing methods, including test-driven development and automated testing
• Experience of each stage of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Effectiveness within the previous role of ensuring software is released with a minimum of defects reaching the customer
• Ability to write good reports and general word processing skills (Word, Excel, Databases).
• Good day-to-day planning skills, coordination, and control under pressure.
• To work equally well on their own as well as within a team.
• Windows and Linux experience

Desirable:

• Relevant industry/product knowledge
• Experience in the 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
• Man management experience

Education and qualifications

• Bachelors or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline OR relevant industry experience.
• Three (3)+ years of relevant experience.
• ISTQB Foundation.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.