Test Engineer

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Role overview:

Design, execute and maintain tests that demonstrate ESCS software, integrations, infrastructure and services meet their functional and non-functional requirements. The Testing Engineer works closely with analysts, developers, suppliers and users to produce clear, repeatable evidence.

The role you will play:

• Convert requirements and designs into effective test conditions, cases and evidence.
• Find defects early through a balanced use of manual, exploratory and automated testing.
• Support objective decisions on quality and release readiness.

Primary responsibilities:

• Review requirements and designs and derive test conditions, cases, scripts, data and environment needs.
• Execute functional, integration, regression and relevant non-functional tests.
• Develop and maintain automated API, service or user-interface tests where appropriate.
• Record reproducible defects, evidence, severity and business impact.
• Support defect triage, root-cause investigation and retesting.
• Maintain requirements-to-test traceability and clear test reports.
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines where appropriate.
• Work with suppliers and other teams to validate interfaces and end-to-end processes.

Required skills and capabilities:

• Test analysis, design and execution
• Systems and integration testing
• API testing and service validation
• Manual, exploratory and automated testing
• Test data creation and management
• Defect reporting and lifecycle management
• Requirements traceability
• CI/CD testing awareness
• Performance and security testing awareness
• Clear technical documentation and communication

Required experience:

• Experience testing IT applications, services or integrated solutions.
• Experience creating test cases from requirements and design documents.
• Experience using test and defect management tooling.
• Ability to plan and manage assigned test activities with limited supervision.

Desired experience:

• Cloud or SaaS platform testing.
• TestRail, Jira, Robot Framework, Python, Postman or equivalent.
• Automated tests within delivery pipelines.
• ISTQB Foundation or equivalent.

Clearance requirements:

• SC required to start
• SC required for the role

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Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
•    Contributory Pension Scheme
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•    Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

•    Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

Pay Range:

£58,400.00-£74,900.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.