Verification, Validation and Test Engineer (VV&T)
Verification, Validation and Test Engineer (VV&T)
Airbus Defence & Space
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
We are looking for a Verification, Validation and Test Engineer to join Airbus Defence and Space in Portsmouth, UK. You will join our Modem System Product team and report to the Engineering Manager.
You will join a highly technical team working towards exciting planetary missions in one of the world's largest space businesses, working with cutting-edge technologies designed to travel to infinity and beyond. From satellites providing our planet with images and communications, to rovers that wonder foreign planets, and the rockets that launch them there....we make it happen, we make it fly!
All within a flexible working environment, with the chance to see the full end-to-end life cycle of the products you will be working on, from design and development to Launch.
You will need to be eligible to gain UK SC Security Clearance.
Tasks & Accountabilities
- Specification of system test procedures together with their implementation and tracing to requirements for verification (including pass/file criteria);
- Software scripting of test procedures including automated regression testing and test report generation;
- Coding in Python/Bash/C/C++/Java/Matlab;
- Working with RF test equipment (including remote control and monitoring), e.g. Signal Analysers and Generators;
- Working along typical Engineering process including VCRI preparation;
- Supporting TRR, TRB, and FDR gates.
This role will involve very occasional travel for business within the UK and worldwide.
Skills & Experience
- University degree in a technical domain, e.g., computer science, engineering or equivalent;
- Applicants should have broad engineering experience in a test role, ideally with communication/radar systems, including hardware, software, and RF integration and their characterisation/testing in a laboratory environment;
- Experience in software development using the Agile methodology and Tools;
- Expertise in computer hardware and software and programming languages such as C, C++, and Python;
- Familiarity with Aircraft-level design and test standards.
What Airbus Can Offer You
- A competitive salary with annual profit share;
- An ever-growing list of company benefits including enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave;
- Very strong, very real career development options across our transnational, market leading company;
- A hybrid working pattern of 2 to 3 days per week in the office and 2 to 3 days remotely;
- Flexible hours - 37 per week with no core hours on Friday afternoons!
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for the selection process - you can share this with the Recruitment Business Partner who gets in touch if you are invited to interview. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.
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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
