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Test Analyst

Babcock International Group

Bristol

Hybrid

GBP 38,000 - 42,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Babcock International Group is looking for a Test Analyst to join their team, working on advanced systems supporting the Submarine fleet's operational readiness. The role involves testing essential applications, ensuring reliability, and verifying system performance, with a full-time commitment of 35 hours per week in a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme
Access to a Digital GP
Employee share scheme
Payment of Professional Fees
Holiday Trading benefit
Development opportunities
Employee assistance programme
10-days special paid leave for reservists
‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

  • Experience in software application testing, both functional and non-functional.
  • Proficiency in Azure DevOps and Selenium.
  • Ambition for personal career development.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct testing of applications to ensure submarine capability and reliability.
  • Review requirements to create test estimates, plans, and scripts.
  • Execute functional and non-functional system tests.

Skills

Software application testing
Agile methodology
SQL
Test Rail
Azure DevOps
Selenium

Education

ISTQB Foundation Level certification

Tools

Azure DevOps
Selenium

Job description

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Job Title: Test Analyst
Location: Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Leicester, Leicestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38, - £42, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Test Analyst at our Devonport Royal Dockyard, Babcock Technology Centre or Radar Road Leicester sites.

The role
As a Test Analyst, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join our team and work with advanced systems that ensure the operational readiness of the Submarine fleet. Play a key role in supporting critical maritime operations, contributing to the success of complex engineering solutions.

Day-to-day, you’ll conduct testing of essential applications to ensure submarine capability, reliability, and operational effectiveness. Verify system performance and functionality to support mission readiness.

  • Review requirements and design documents to create test estimates, plans, cases, and scripts for functional and non-functional testing.
  • Execute systems tests, ensuring coverage of both functional and non-functional aspects.
  • Use test tools like Test Rail, Azure DevOps, and Selenium for efficient test execution.
  • Facilitate discussions between Systems Test and UAT to define scope and coverage.

This role is full time 35, hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements, with 2 days on site and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Test Analyst

  • Expertise in software application testing, covering both functional and non-functional aspects.
  • Proficiency in Azure DevOps and Selenium.
  • Experience working in Agile methodology
  • Knowledge of SQL for database validation and testing.
  • Ambition to drive and shape personal career development.

Qualifications for the Test Analyst

  • Must hold ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) Foundation Level certification, confirming expertise as a certified Software Tester.

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 at

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.
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