Test Analyst

Babcock International Group; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Test Analyst to join their team. The role involves conducting testing to ensure operational readiness of submarine fleet systems, utilizing advanced testing tools like Test Rails and Selenium. The successful candidate will contribute to critical maritime operations, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of complex engineering solutions.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for Reservists

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proficiency in both functional and non-functional testing.
• Hands-on experience with relevant testing tools.
• Ambition to drive personal career development.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements and design documents to create test plans and cases.
• Execute systems tests for functional and non-functional aspects.
• Facilitate discussions between Systems Test and UAT.

Skills

Software application testing

Test Rails

Azure DevOps

Selenium

SQL

API testing

Backend testing

Performance testing

Education

ISTQB Foundation Level certification

Job description

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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