Test Analyst

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Babcock International as a Test Analyst and contribute to ensuring the operational readiness of the Submarine fleet. In this hybrid role, you will conduct testing on critical systems, with opportunities for professional development and a comprehensive benefits package, including generous leave and pension contributions.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Access to a Digital GP

Excellent development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Expertise in functional and non-functional testing.
• Proficiency in SQL for database validation.
• Hands-on experience with testing tools, particularly Selenium.

Responsibilities

• Conduct testing of applications to ensure submarine capability.
• Create test estimates, plans, and cases for functional/non-functional testing.
• Verify system performance to support mission readiness.

Skills

Software Application Testing

API Testing

Performance Testing

SQL

Test Automation

Education

ISTQB Foundation Level Certification

Tools

Test Rail

Azure DevOps

Selenium

Job description

Test Analyst

Location:Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Test Analyst
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Leicester, Leicestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38,084 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64005

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.

Essential experience of the Test Analyst

• Expertise in software application testing, covering both functional and non-functional aspects.
• Proficiency in Test Rails, Azure DevOps, and Selenium.
• Hands-on experience with API, backend, and performance testing, including relevant tools.
• Strong 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 maintainBaseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• 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 email [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.

Closing date: 11/06/2025

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