Senior Test Engineer

Location: Cambridge (CB25)
Duration: Permanent
Hours: 9am until 5:30pm (Monday to Friday)
Salary: £53k-£60k
Job Reference: 35664

We are looking for a Senior Test Engineer for our client based North Cambridge. You will play a key role in designing, executing, and maintaining test across both manual and automated test frameworks within the business.

This job involves some travelling so the successful applicant will have a full, clean driving licence and their own car. Travel expenses will be paid. This role may require Security Clearance in the future.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and executing functional, regression, system, and performance testing
  
• Testing of software solutions / applications to ensure that the developed products meet the requirements and are free of defects
  
• Reading and understanding requirements documentation
  
• Involvement in test planning, test execution, defect tracking, and reporting to stakeholders
  
• Producing and maintaining appropriate documentation for tracking quality metrics
  
• Developing and executing manual and automated test cases
  
• Designing and maintaining test automation frameworks, tools, and scripts to improve efficiency and coverage
  
• Collaborating with software, hardware, and system engineers to identify defects, reproduce issues, and drive resolutions
  
• Ensuring test environments, test equipment, and infrastructure are maintained and available for testing
  
• Mentoring junior test engineers and contribute to the growth of the test team
  
  Requirements
  
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Electronics, Telecommunications, or a related field
  
• 3 years UK residency is required for security check
  
• ISTQB certification (preferred but not mandatory)
  
• A high level of communication skills and technical understanding
  
• Solid experience in manual and automation testing, preferably in embedded systems, telecommunications, or mission-critical applications
  
• Experience with manual testing methodologies for embedded software and hardware products
  
• Familiarity with TETRA and LTE technologies is highly desirable
  
• Strong knowledge of test automation tools (e.g., Python, Selenium, Robot Framework, Appium, or similar)
  
• Knowledge of protocol testing, RF testing, and communication interfaces (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, Serial, Bluetooth, etc.) is a plus
  
• Strong experience in using Test Management tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr)
  
• Hands-on experience with testing frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cypress, Postman, JMeter)
  
• Understanding of APIs and backend testing
  
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git)