Software QA Engineer - Defence

Location: South West London

Duration: 5 months+

Rate: £50 an hour (Outside IR35)

Please note: Shifts - two parallel streams of testing - 6am till 2pm and 2pm till 10pm - Monday to Friday (every two week rotation)

Role - Software QA

The primary purpose of this job is to perform Project Quality Assurance activities on assigned bids and projects with a focus on software engineering, systems integration and test.

Key Responsibilities - Software QA

• Oversight, inspection and acceptance of system software builds relating to maritime defence programmes

• Support execution of the Software Acceptance Test Plan

• Support Test Readiness Reviews

• Support witnessed system testing

• Support validation and verification of software/systems requirements

• Support engineering configuration management including software and firmware (Programmable Electronic Systems)

Person Specification - Software QA

• Software Quality Assurance experience, ideally in a maritime systems engineering environment

• Systems engineering integration and acceptance testing

• Experience in developing and implementing ISO compliant processes

Competency/Skill requirements - Software QA

• A good understanding of software development lifecycles (waterfall/agile)

• Knowledge of ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2013

• Sound working knowledge of Defence engineering standards and working practices including AQAP 2000 series, DefStans