Safety-Critical Test & Verification Engineer

April Quest; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

April Quest is seeking an experienced test engineer to join our innovative engineering team. You will drive test strategies from requirements through verification, covering hardware, firmware and electronics to ensure safety-critical performance.

You will design, implement and run test plans, develop automated tests in Python, maintain calibration, and support certification activities while guiding junior team members to rigorous, evidence-backed results.

Qualifications

• Three or more years’ experience in a test/verification/validation role within electronics or instrumentation.
• Hands‑on experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, data loggers and environmental chambers.
• Experience creating and executing structured test plans and communicating results clearly.
• Strong data‑analysis skills and a safety‑focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Write clear, traceable test specifications, protocols and reports.
• Perform functional, environmental, EMC, ingress-protection, mechanical and life testing across hardware, firmware and mechanical assemblies.
• Analyse results, report readiness, raise/test defects, reproduce issues and verify fixes.
• Design and maintain test rigs, fixtures and jigs for development and production testing.
• Develop automated test methods and scripts (including Python) to improve coverage and repeatability.
• Maintain calibration and traceability for test equipment.
• Support certification, pre‑compliance testing, engineering changes, production investigations and field‑return analysis.
• Maintain audit-ready test records and support junior team members.

Skills

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Power supplies

Data loggers

Environmental chambers

Tools

Python

Modbus RTU

BLE

USB

Job description

April Quest is seeking an experienced test engineer to join our innovative engineering team. You will drive test strategies from requirements through verification, covering hardware, firmware and electronics to ensure safety-critical performance.

You will design, implement and run test plans, develop automated tests in Python, maintain calibration, and support certification activities while guiding junior team members to rigorous, evidence-backed results.