Software Test Engineer

• Job Location: Portsmouth, England
• Type: Contract
• Posted: 09/04/2025

Overview

- We are looking for a Software Engineer to join client’s Modem team within the Product Engineering group.
The team is undertaking the design and implementation of a satellite communications Software Defined Radio (SDR) modem. 
- You will be part of a small multi-disciplinary team containing software, system, firmware and infrastructure engineers. 
- There will be scope in the future to work on further developments as project needs arise.
- You will test software aspects of modem products and associated communications systems, using your experience in software 
and subystem integration testing within complex systems.

Your tasks

-Developing software aspects to support the test of satellite modem products based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologies.
-Definition, implementation, verification and validation activities associated with these solutions.
-Work in response to requirements, defining sub-systems, communicating risk and specifying test and verification techniques. 
-Occasionally diagnose software problems in the laboratory prototyping environment.
-Develop and maintain skills to support on-going and future development

Qualifications

Essential:

-Ability to architect, document and implement integration tests
-Experience of unit and integration test tools (e.g. Robot Framework, GoogleTest, Catch2)
-Proven knowledge of Linux tools in a test automation environment
-Experience of automating devices via their management interfaces (e.g. SNMP, HTTP)
-Experience of working with Git for version control

Desirable:

-Experience of system and software modelling tools such as Enterprise Architect (SysML / UML)
-Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment would be beneficial (e.g. Atlassian Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
-Experience of Jenkins configuration and administration
-Experience in user interface design, implementation and test using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
-Experience of test automation using Node.js, npm, Python

Capital International Staffing Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.