Company: NES Fircroft
Location: Lisburn
Posted: May 9th, 2026
Role - Systems Test Engineer (Inside IR35)
Location - Northern Ireland
This role will be focused on Manual QA testing working with equipment in a Lab Environment - eg
Signal generators, Multi-metres, Oscilloscopes, Oil Line connections and Oil bottle setups
This role will require working with the Scrum development team and product management team to create and execute test solutions, both manual and automated, for product releases.
You will work among a talented and motivated R&D team, applying technologies such as On-line Dissolved Gas Measurement (DGA), Bushing Measurement (Tan Delta and Capacitance), Partial Discharge (PD) detection (UHF & Electrical) and Fast Transient measurement.
The scope of the team is unique, covering fundamental research on new measurement technologies, through to advanced Cloud based Industrial Internet concepts and deployment.
Define, implement, and execute manual and automated tests across the fleet of products to ensure product functionality and robustness
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Identify opportunities and tools to automate the test process.
Develop automation test frameworks using Python, Robot Framework or other object-oriented language.
Implement test automation where appropriate to improve test efficiency, repeatability, coverage, and accuracy.
Methodically review user stories, acceptance criteria and product requirements.
Create detailed, well-structured and comprehensive test plans and cases.
Ensure traceability of requirements to test cases.
Identify, recommend, and implement procedures to improve the efficiency of QA test execution.
Work closely with the scrum development team to carry out smoke and regression test executions in a timely manner (manual and automated).
Desired experience
Desired Criteria:
Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or Computer Science discipline or equivalent.
Understanding of embedded systems and environments.
Preferably hands-on experience with PyCharm or VS.
Familiarity with CI / CD pipeline.
Experience of Linux Operating system.
Familiarity with HP ALM Quality Centre and Rally / JIRA.
Ability to use signal generators and oscilloscope.