Senior Test Specialist

JR United Kingdom; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defence and security sector is seeking a Senior Test Specialist to enhance their quality assurance efforts. This role involves leading testing initiatives across various methodologies, mentoring junior testers, and ensuring alignment with project schedules and quality standards. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career progression in a flexible working environment.

Benefits

Healthcare

Pension

Enhanced leave

Bonus

Access to technical upskilling and training programmes

Inclusive, supportive work culture

Qualifications

• Solid experience in manual and automated testing across different types.
• Able to lead small teams and manage test deliverables independently.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor testers, contributing to a high-performance test practice.
• Produce test artefacts: plans, scripts, reports, and manage defects.
• Execute both manual and automated tests, including functional and regression testing.

Skills

Manual testing

Automated testing

Stakeholder management

Communication

Test lifecycle understanding

Education

ISTQB Foundation certification

Tools

JIRA

Windows Server 2019

Active Directory

SCOM

SCCM

VMware

Job description

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Are you a skilled Senior Test Specialist with a passion for quality assurance, infrastructure and application testing? This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your experience will directly contribute to the success of mission-critical programmes with one of the leading companies in the defence and security space.

The Role

As a Senior Test Specialist, you'll lead and support testing efforts across multiple delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, V-Model). You’ll collaborate closely with project stakeholders and test teams to define and deliver robust test strategies across infrastructure, application, and hardware environments.

You will:

• Lead and mentor testers, contributing to a high-performance test practice.

• Produce test artefacts: plans, scripts, reports, and manage defects.

• Execute both manual and automated tests, including functional, non-functional, E2E, and regression testing.

• Coordinate environments, tools, and resources to support testing.

• Ensure delivery aligns with project schedules and quality standards.

• Solid experience in manual and automated testing across different testing types.

• Hands-on with Windows Server 2019, Active Directory, SCOM, SCCM, and VMware.

• Strong understanding of test lifecycle, SDLC, and methodologies.

• Demonstrated experience using JIRA and test metrics collection.

• ISTQB Foundation (or higher) certified.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Able to lead small teams and manage test deliverables independently.

• Salary – Up to £48,000

• Comprehensive benefits package: healthcare, pension, enhanced leave, bonus

• Flexible/hybrid working model

• Dedicated career progression paths

• Access to technical upskilling and training programmes

• Inclusive, supportive work culture committed to diversity

For more information please apply below or contact me directly.