Test & Verification Engineer

APRIL QUEST LIMITED; Kingston Bagpuize; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

APRIL QUEST LIMITED in Kingston Bagpuize, United Kingdom, is seeking an experienced test engineer to drive verification and validation across electronics and instrumentation, ensuring safety-critical performance in field deployments.

You will design and maintain test rigs, develop automated test methods (Python), run environmental and EMC tests, analyze data, raise defects, and collaborate with engineers to reproduce issues and verify fixes, documenting evidence for audits and regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience creating test plans and protocols.
• Ability to raise defects and track fixes.
• Hands-on hardware and firmware testing.
• Knowledge of safety-critical instrumentation.
• Good documentation and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Write clear test specifications, protocols and reports.
• Perform functional, environmental, EMC, ingress-protection, mechanical and life testing.
• Analyse results, report product readiness, raise and track defects, and work with engineering teams to reproduce issues and verify fixes.
• Design and maintain test rigs, fixtures and jigs for development and production testing.
• Develop automated test methods and scripts, including Python where appropriate, to improve test coverage and repeatability.
• Maintain calibration and measurement traceability for test equipment.
• Support certification, pre-compliance testing, engineering changes and field-return analysis.
• Maintain accurate, audit-ready test records and support junior team members.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, data loggers and environmental chambers.
• Strong data-analysis skills and a methodical, safety-focused approach.

Skills

Test & validation

Python automation

Data analysis

Troubleshooting

Safety-focused

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Power supplies

Data loggers

Environmental chambers

Modbus RTU

USB/Serial

Job description

• Write clear, traceable test specifications, protocols and reports.
• Functional, environmental, EMC, ingress-protection, mechanical and life testing across hardware, firmware and mechanical assemblies.
• Analyse results, report product readiness, raise and track defects, and work with engineering teams to reproduce issues and verify fixes.
• Design and maintain test rigs, fixtures and jigs for development and production testing.
• Develop automated test methods and scripts, including Python where appropriate, to improve test coverage and repeatability.
• Maintain calibration and measurement traceability for test equipment.
• Support certification, pre-compliance testing, engineering changes, component substitutions, production investigations and field-return analysis.
• Maintain accurate, audit-ready test records and support junior team members.
  Three or more years experience in a test, verification or validation role within electronics or instrumentation.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, data loggers and environmental chambers.
• Experience creating and executing structured test plans, fault-finding at product/system level, and communicating results clearly.
• Strong data-analysis skills and a methodical, safety-focused approach.
• Desirable experience
• Regulated, safety-related or gas-detection instrumentation.
• Python automation and interfaces such as Modbus RTU/BLE, USB or serial.
• EMC, IEC 60068 environmental, ingress-protection or IEC 61508/SIL testing.
• Embedded systems, firmware, IoT/wireless connectivity, requirements traceability, defect tracking or ISO 9001., You are curious, practical and thorough - equally comfortable building a test rig, investigating a difficult failure and turning data into clear direction for design teams. Most importantly, you care about producing evidence that stands up to scrutiny when products are relied upon to protect lives.
  Join an innovative engineering team developing safety-critical technology & equipment used around the world and help ensure that new and existing products perform safely, reliably and consistently in the field.