Software Test Engineer

About The Role
Software Test Engineer
Up to £45k Depending on experience + Benefits
Barnstaple (with a mix of office and home-based working)
We are SEA.
Engineered to protect. We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
Join us.
We have a requirement for a Software Test Engineer, providing support to engineering teams on a variety of engineering equipment and products throughout their lifecycle.
What we offer
Your work, your contribution, deserves to be recognised and rewarded. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance:

Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
Half day Fridays
Reservist in the armed forces receive special paid leave 
Family & wellbeing:

Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
All Staff Bonus
Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
Cycle to work scheme
Wellbeing centre
Sports & Social activities
Employee Discounts portal - online and instore discounts, travel savings etc
Canada Life GP and financial advice
Life assurance policy
Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learningFacilities & resources:

Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
Private seated lunch areas
Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
Onsite showers and toiletries provision
Free onsite parking 
What you’ll be doing
Supporting with proposals, design and design proving, test, commissioning, in-service support and training, you will work individually and within a team environment of multi-disciplined specialists and engineering disciplines to achieve programme results and customer deliverables in a timely and accurate manner.
Define and agree testing strategies
Define and manage project test environments, both physical and virtual
Requirements analysis
Planning, developing and documentation of test cases
Executing test cases
Producing formal test documentation
Managing formal acceptance events
Reporting test progress to project teams
Manage reporting and clearing of defects
Maintain configuration control of test environments
Manual and automation test experience required
Provide input into defining further automation test tools
A hands on approach to testing The skills you need
Essential Experience:
Experience of testing desktop and web applications, integrated services, multi component systems, and hardware/software integration.
Integration testing.
Interrogating databases, log files and other repositories of data to confirm the original state and output of software operations.
Requirements verification and validation.
Desirable Experience
Experience of using Gherkin, Cucumber, and Visual Studio.
Other desktop and web application automation tools experience.
Experience with GitLab is also beneficial.
Formal Acceptance test activities.
Load and stress testing.
Testing software on hardware devices. 
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 300 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters. 
If you would like to know more, please give our Talent Acquisition Advisor Ethan a call on (phone number removed).
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