Senior ITEA Test Engineer

Prattwhitney; Warminster; Presencial; GBP 60 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

RTX leads the world in aerospace and defense, delivering solutions across three market-leading businesses. This Senior ITEA Test Engineer role sits within the OMNIA Training ecosystem, focused on transforming the British Army’s training through innovative test strategies and automation.

You will work in a matrix organisation, mentor junior engineers, and define test criteria and acceptance in complex verification matrices, contributing to environmentally safe and secure operations within a

Qualificações

• Proven track record of creating manual test scripts.
• Proven track record of using scripted test automation to improve quality and coverage.
• Experience in creating and managing test automation frameworks.

Responsabilidades

• Execute, create and maintain manual test plans.
• Create and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts.
• Define and manage test data, environments and tools.
• Integrate test automation into deployment pipeline.
• Lead and support work packages with estimates and reviews.
• Promote test automation best practices across projects.

Conhecimentos

Manual test scripts

Test automation

Automation frameworks

Agile/SCRUM/DevOps

VVRM knowledge

Senior ITEA experience

Systems engineering

Mentoring juniors

Test planning

Ferramentas

IBM DOORS

JIRA

Java

Javascript

Python

Bash

HLA

DIS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Senior ITEA Test Engineer

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

Be at the forefront of transforming British Army training.

About us

At OMNIA® Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world. OMNIA are redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you. OMNIA is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy.

The role

This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win. You’ll work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through OMNIA Training and functionally through the ITEA Lead. Ultimately, you’ll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the execution, creation and maintenance of manual test plans.
• Responsible for the creation and maintenance of automated test frameworks and scripts.
• Produce test automation strategies, plans and reports in compliance with project guidelines.
• Deputise for the ITEA Lead when required.
• Define and manage test environments; create and manage test data; define and manage test tools.
• Integrate test automation into the deployment pipeline.
• Lead and support work packages, including estimation of test activities, test/acceptance events, readiness/result/audit reviews.
• Promote test automation and best practices within the team and across projects.
• Support test team interactions with the wider team and assist in the resolution of issues.
• Support the team at formal and artefact reviews as necessary.
• Mentor and coach within a cross-functional team, fostering a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous improvement.
• Be responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement.
• Definition of test criteria and acceptance in the Verification and Validation Requirements Matrix (VVRM).
• Any other duties required to meet the needs of the programme.

Who we are looking for

We’re after individuals who want to serve. You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to ‘get things done’. You’ll want to work in collaboration with other defence training organisations, and the British Army. You won’t let bureaucracy get in the way of what needs to be done, you’ll learn lessons and share these lessons across the team. You won’t necessarily have a military background, but you’ll understand what it means to serve and to put the mission first.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven track record of creating manual test scripts
• Proven track record of using scripted test automation to improve quality, consistency and coverage within a software development environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge of creating and managing test automation frameworks.
• Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model.
• Experience in inputting to and managing VVRM across systems, services and capabilities.
• Working as a Senior Engineer within ITEA Test Teams.
• Broad technology experience, with demonstrable experience of enterprise capability development (people, process and technology).
• Experience in ITEA Sampling approaches and techniques.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and processes.
• An understanding of assurance and acceptance processes.
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior members of a team.
• Test and Trial script planning experience and test automation.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience of IBM DOORS and JIRA tools is desirable.
• Experience with modelling and simulation technologies, including familiarity with standards such as HLA (High-Level Architecture), DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation), and HLA4.
• Knowledge of defence or public sector engineering standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience in training transformation or learning platforms.
• ISTQB, SAFe or ITIL4 certified.
• Knowledge of the MOD’s GEAR framework.
• Testing and assurance in a training environment aligned with JSP 822.
• Experience of programming/scripting languages such as Java, Javascript, Python, Bash.
• Security cleared or ability to obtain (SC or above) #LI-LM1

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.