System Test Engineer - 4 days a week on site - Unix - SQL

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Job Details:

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Prepare detailed functional test specifications for both device and system tests
Use industry standard test tools to develop manual and automated tests in a variety of programming languages
Conduct subsystem, system and user level testing
Conduct end-to-end testing
Document tests results and share findings with development teams and project stakeholders
Liaise with Engineering departments and customers with regard to testing of projects
Conduct tests both in house and in the presence of the customer
Prepare and conduct in-house reliability tests

Skills knowledge and experience:

Essential:

Solid previous experience within a Product test or QA environment.
Experience of manual and exploratory testing
Experience of building and executing test cases and plans
Experience using TestRail and Jira
Experience of testing methods, including test-driven development and automated testing
Experience of each stage of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Desirable:

Relevant industry/product knowledge
Experience of either London Transport or automotive industry testing
Knowledge of Serial and TCP/IP comms protocols and configuration
Agile/Scrum experience
Participate in interviews for recruitment
Working knowledge of SQL, Basic UNIX and Confluence.
Linux Shell Scripting
Use of Project Planning Tools
Awareness of Smart/Payment Card technology and public key encryption technologies

Education and qualifications

Essential:

HNC or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline OR relevant industry experience
ISTQB Foundation

Desirable:

Degree/MSC in Engineering Discipline
Test automation knowledge or experience