SP Senior System Integration and Test Engineer

About the role

We are urgently seeking to recruit an Integration and Test Engineer to be based predominantly on-site at our Ampthill, Bedfordshire offices.

Key Responsibilities:

Test Planning & Execution

• Design comprehensive test plans, cases, procedures, and reports.
• Execute test campaigns in line with specifications and timeline.
• Validate and analyse test data for accuracy and completeness.

Documentation & Communication

• Author, review and sign off on all test documentation (plans, reports, logs).
• Provide clear, concise status updates to stakeholders (internal/external).
• Plan and carry out Test Readiness Reviews

Test Facility Management

• Identify, evaluate and contract suitable test facilities via the supply‑chain representative.
• Act as the primary technical liaison with contracted facilities.
• Coordinate equipment transport to and from sites.

System Integration

• Develop and integrate automated test scripts into the broader tool ecosystem.
• Integrate large, complex solutions within the wider system‑of‑systems framework.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Work within a large, multi‑disciplinary engineering team to deliver systems on tight deadlines.
• Participate in verification and qualification trials (UK Defence Industry).

Safety & Security

• Ensure all testing activities being conducted comply with safety protocols.
• Enforce data and equipment security requirements during testing.

Field Deployments

• Deploy to trial sites for the duration of test campaigns as required.
• Travel between sites for meetings, reviews, and de‑briefs.

Required skills, qualifications and experience

Communication

• Excellent verbal and written communication – able to produce clear, concise reports and present findings to technical & non‑technical audiences.

Test Engineering

• Proven experience creating test plans, cases, procedures, and reports for system integration/verification.

Test & Integration Experience

• Demonstrated hands‑on experience in qualification/verification trials, ideally within defence‑related systems.

Strategic Planning

• Experience developing strategies to support formal product sell‑off and acceptance.

Tool Proficiency

• Familiarity with usage and deployment of instrumentation including thermocouples, strain gauges, accelerometers.
• Experience and usage of Data acquisition tools (data loggers, video loggers) used in a test environment.
• Configuration GUIs/HMIs, Emulators, Operating Systems, Interface Protocols.

Fault Diagnosis

• Ability to investigate, document, and report faults or anomalies in complex systems.

Desired Skills

• Integration & verification of software‑inclusive or IP‑networked military systems.
• Familiarity with UK Defence industry ‘Qualification & Verification Trials’ and the associated acceptance process.
• Experience with vehicle system integration & verification.
• Independent work‑planning and estimation skills.
• Familiarity with one or more of the following Systems Engineering tools:

IBM DOORS NG
IBM Rational Quality Manager
Cameo Systems Modeler