Lead Software Test Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering company as a Lead Software Test Engineer, overseeing the SkyNet 6 New Management System's development and ensuring high-quality deliveries. This hybrid role offers significant responsibilities, including team management and direct contributions to an Agile software team, set in a supportive environment focused on innovation and personal development.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Annual health check and nutritional consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteer work

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with C# essential.
• Experience leading a team of any size.

Responsibilities

• Oversee software development lifecycle and assure suitability of the SkyNet 6 NMS.
• Manage a team of Software Engineering resources.
• Create and review software delivery plans.

Skills

C#

Team Leadership

Agile Methodology

Job description

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Lead Software Test Engineer

Location:

Corsham, GB, SN13 9NP

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Lead Software Test Engineer

Location: Hawthorn, Corsham – Majority of the role can be remote.

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65559

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as aLead Software Engineer at our Hawthorn, Corsham site.

The role

As a Lead Software Test Engineer, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the entire software development lifecycle and you are responsible for design, planning, execution and assuring suitability of the SkyNet 6 New Management System (NMS), in accordance with the project delivery lifecycle.

The system provides the management platform to operate satellites for Britain’s global communication for Government services.

Working closely alongside the Lead Systems Test Engineer, Lead Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Team and the Project Manager, the suitable Lead Software Engineer will deliver software systems to tight timescales across multiple phases of the project.

The Lead Software Test Engineer will manage a team of Software Engineering resources to help deliver each work package on time.

• Working in an Agile software team to create and review software delivery plans, User Stories, Business Requirements or System Requirements.
• Coordinating tasks among team members.
• Documenting and defining guidelines (e.g. Software Delivery Plan) for delivering the system.
• Designing the product, updates and improvements.
• Contributing to the team activities, including hands-on development.
• Analysing data and tracking metrics to ensure that the solution is performing well.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Hawthorn, Corsham. Majority of the role can be remote.

Essential experience of the Lead Software Engineer

• You must have hands-on experience with C#.
• You must have experience leading a team of any size.

Qualifications for the Lead Software Engineer

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available atUnited Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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Closing Date: 29/07/2025

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