Senior Test Specialist

JR United Kingdom; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defence and security space is seeking a Senior Test Specialist to enhance its quality assurance efforts. In this role, you will lead testing across various methodologies, contribute to a high-performance team, and ensure the quality of mission-critical programmes. You will benefit from a comprehensive salary and benefits package and dedicated career progression paths in an inclusive work culture.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Healthcare

Pension

Enhanced leave

Bonus

Flexible/hybrid working model

Technical upskilling and training programmes

Inclusive, supportive work culture

Qualifications

• Solid experience in manual and automated testing across various types.
• Ability to lead small teams and manage deliverables.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor testers, contributing to a high-performance test practice.
• Produce test artefacts and manage defects.
• Execute both manual and automated tests.

Skills

Test lifecycle

Stakeholder management

Communication

Quality assurance

Agile methodologies

Test strategies

Test automation

JIRA

Education

ISTQB Foundation

Tools

Windows Server 2019

Active Directory

SCOM

SCCM

VMware

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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.