Embedded Software Test Engineer
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Location | Cambridge |
| Area | Cambridgeshire, England |
| Sector | Software - Test |
| Salary | C, C++, Python |
| Currency | GBP |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | Jamie Harris |
| Job Ref | 5846JH |
- Description
- If you are a Software Test Engineer looking for something special then you may have just found it. This company have recently won an award for being an outstanding employer to work for due to a very long list of attributes that make them stand out from the crowd. As well as the usual corporate benefits package and performance related bonus schemes employees benefit from a very active social club that has created a “family feel” to the company, Free lunches, Structured career development plans that allow staff to thrive within both technical disciplines and leadership roles, A very large budget for employee training and perhaps most importantly there is an incredible amount of variety in technical work for engineers – this is something that every engineer craves and in turn the company have a very low turnover of staff.
Minimum requirements
- Degree in a technical discipline (i.e. engineering / software / maths / physics)
- Experience of efficient and repeatable testing in an embedded software environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience of scripting in C, C++ and/or Python
- Experience of testing embedded communications software
- Ability to multitask
- Excellent attention to detail
Specific responsibilities
Test engineers work on projects in multidisciplinary teams, sometimes on more than one concurrently. High quality work is essential from every team member.
As a project team member you would be responsible for carrying out your specific project tasks within the timescales and budgets agreed with your project managers. As your experience develops, you might wish to take on further responsibilities.
Desirable
- ISEB Fundamental / Intermediate certificate in Software testing
- Skills in automating testing to enable higher test coverage within a given time
- Experience of generating tests plans from requirement specifications or use cases
- Experience of SVN or other source control systems
- Experience of using a bug tracking database
- Familiarity with standard software compilers and toolchains (gcc / make etc)
- Familiarity with various platforms (Windows / Linux / Unix / Solaris)
