Test & Testability Expert – SME
Location: Stevenage/Bristol; Hybrid work; Permanent; Salary: £70,000.
Are you an experienced Test Engineering professional working within Defence with a passion for solving complex technical challenges? Want to work on the most exciting projects of national importance, with a company that pays competitively and offers bonuses up to 27% of salary and a hybrid working pattern? An exciting opportunity has become available within our Test Architect team for a Missile Test & Testability Expert – a highly influential technical role at the heart of advanced missile system development.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Subject Matter Expert within Test & Testability Architecture (TTA), you’ll play a key role across a range of missile programmes, helping to define and optimise testing strategies, architectures and methodologies. You’ll work closely with project teams and senior engineering stakeholders to:
- Lead the definition of project test strategies
- Define Built-In Test (BIT) architectures and coverage requirements
- Improve technical specifications and testing methodologies across projects
- Analyse production test data to identify trends and diagnose failures
- Lead modelling and analysis activities to understand test coverage and generate diagnostic instructions
- Support critical development and manufacturing reviews, including Red-Team activities
- Contribute to new product bid activities
- Drive best practice and continuous improvement across the department
- Mentor and support engineers within the Test & Testability team
- Contribute to future roadmap and capability development activities
This role offers significant technical influence and the opportunity to help shape the future direction of missile test and testability within a world-leading defence environment.
What We’re Looking For
We’re seeking an experienced engineering professional with strong technical leadership capability and a collaborative mindset.
Essential Experience
- Degree qualified (or equivalent experience)
- Significant experience of electronic test across the full project lifecycle
- Electronic circuit design, testing and failure analysis techniques
- Test equipment design and specification
- Requirements capture and technical documentation
- Design for Test (DfT) and testability expertise
- Project planning and management experience
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and technical direction
What’s on Offer
- Bonus of up to 27% of base salary
- £300 per month car allowance
- Pension contributions up to 14%
- Private Medical Insurance
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Enhanced parental leave packages
- Subsidised meals and free on-site parking
- Excellent career development opportunities within a global engineering environment
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