Jobs in Bristol, United Kingdom

We have a great opportunity for a skilled and adaptable Verification and Validation (V&V) Test Engineer to join our Real‑Time Embedded software department!

Salary: Circa £64,000 depending on experience.
Dynamic (hybrid) working: typically, 4 days per week on site.
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

Spanning a diverse portfolio of work packages, you will be working with teams of enthusiastic, dedicated engineers to qualify components of some of the world's most sophisticated defence systems!

If you have experience of verification and validation in an advanced technological environment, ideally with a background in embedded software development, then we would like to talk to you.

The role requires taking requirements, developing them into robust test cases, preparing and executing tests, capturing data, and delivering actionable feedback to project teams.

You will have to draw upon your strong practical problem‑solving skills, data acquisition expertise, and adaptability.

• Strong experience of Verification and Validation (V&V) activities in an embedded software environment.
• Experience of turning requirements into structured test cases and procedures.
• Experience of working in a lab environment on an electro‑mechanical product running embedded software.
• Good working knowledge of the complete software engineering lifecycle.
• Scripting abilities

• Safety critical systems experience
• Knowledge of standards such as DefStan 00‑55, DO‑178C & DO‑330
• Embedded software development experience using Ada and/or C/C++.
• Knowledge of Real Time Operating Systems
• Model Driven Design experience
• Knowledge of test automation methods
• Knowledge of DOORS, Engineering Workflow Management (EWM), Rapita Suite, Rhapsody, LDRA
• Breakpoint Analysis experience
• Experience of Focused Code Reviews