System Test Engineer

Salfords, Surrey, United Kingdom

Job Description


Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

At Cubic, we love to solve problems and give travellers choices in how to pay their fares quickly and safely through our revenue management and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) systems and tools. We enable transportation authorities and agencies to manage demand across the entire transportation network - all in real time. We continually strive for innovation and improvement in the overall user experience through faster fare payment and efficient information management. Our track record in revenue management, real-time passenger information and intelligent traffic management systems is built on our commitment to delivering innovative, open and customer-focused solutions. Delivering end-to-end systems and services based on innovation, scalability, specialist integration and the flexibility to grow with changing requirements and emerging technology for the complete mobility network is what Cubic does best.

We deliver to the major cities around the world and in the United Kingdom we are best known as the technology and service provider for London\xe2\x80\x99s Oyster Card System.

As an employer, we are committed to investing in our people via learning and development schemes, social events and achieving a good work/life balance.

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
  • Coordinate and oversee the work of Test Technicians, collating results and reporting defects
  • Prepare and conduct environmental tests
  • Prepare and issue test reports
  • Perform Defect Reviews
  • Prepare and Maintain the test configuration environments
  • Support with the automation of testing activities
  • Comply with Cubic\xe2\x80\x99s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
  • In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their Manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.
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.
  • Effectiveness within previous role of ensuring software is released with a minimum of defects reaching the customer
  • Ability to write good reports and general word processing skills (Word, Excel, Databases).
  • Good day to day planning skills, co-ordination and control under pressure.
  • To work equally well on their own as well as within a team.
  • Windows and Linux experience
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
Personal Qualities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
  • Interpersonal skills with a willingness to share knowledge and collaborate effectively with individuals and other departments
  • Diligent, with attention to detail
  • Ability to problem solve and find effective resolutions
  • Ability to work as part of a team towards individual and shared goals
  • Enthusiastic and self-motivated
  • Ability to work on own initiative.
  • Direct Customer liaison (Witnessed Testing).
  • Able to work Overtime / weekends when required. Willing to transfer to other locations if appropriate.
  • Able to travel to customer sites (Full driving license - Not essential).
Worker Type:

Employee

Cubic

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD2976846
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Salfords, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • Education
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