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Role: Test Systems Software Engineer

Site Location: Cheltenham - Hybrid

Rate: Up to £75 per hour via Umbrella

Duration: 12 month contract

Role:

This engineer is to join a team of 4 other engineers. They will be doing some planned and some ad-hoc investigations and implementation of solutions, to any Test System on the campus, that has an issue that may be fixed/improved by a software change.

As a lot of the Test Systems release safety critical products for flight, there is a certain amount of documentation and rigour, e.g. code inspection, that is performed around any software change. This role is to do the full life cycle and so will include investigating the issue on the test rig, updating the software and any documents that need changing. All documents will go through a formal review process that the engineer will be responsible for.

Please note since the software investigation, prototyping, integration, and formal test needs to be done on the physical Test System, that the engineer will need to be on site as the work demands, any time during the week. There will be opportunities to work from home when documentation is being updated and review, but this will be on an ad-hoc basis.

Skills:

Good problem solving skills. Good interpersonal skills, the engineer will be working directly with our customer (the testers) during an investigation. Good documentation skills, including familiarity with a formal software lifecycle and documentation set. Good high level language coding skills (please note that this is 4th in priority due to nature of work) An understanding of controlling hardware, or communicating with drivers, with software. An appreciation of debugging software on target hardware.

Desired:

C++ (Embarcadero IDE) Experience with formal configuration control (IBM RTC, Windchill)