Senior Test Specialist

United Kingdom

5/13/2025

Job Description

Senior Test Specialist

Basingstoke – fully on site.

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation.

Your role will involve

• Analyse requirements, both explicit and derived.
• Create and execute tests, test cases and test scenarios as required based on those requirements.
• Test reporting and raising defects as required.
• Contribute directly to stakeholder meetings/gatherings/stand-ups both scheduled and ad-hoc.
• Work efficiently and effectively in and across small teams, as part of a wider delivery Programme.
• Undertake activities as required that are not typically regarded as testing activities e.g. contributing to design writing or integration tasks.
• Escalates any issues/blockers/problems in a timely manner to Team Lead.
• Ability to focus on specific items for defined periods and then move onto the next.
• Be able to respond dynamically to fluid/changing requirements and constraints.
• Be able to communicate and articulate clearly and efficiently.
• Account to the Test Lead.
• Experience of working in a secure environment.
  
  

Your Transferable Skills And Experience

• Familiarity with Cloud solutions, virtualisation technologies and SDN.
• Enterprise tooling such as SIEM, Anti-Malware, System Monitoring and Altering.
• Familiarity with Active Directory and GPOs.
• Understanding of PKI/Cryptography.
• Understanding/Experience of network devices and concepts such as switches, routers and firewalls (physical and virtual).
• Familiarity with non-functional requirements such as security, resilience and performance.
• Experience with testing and test management principles and tooling.
  
  

This role requires eligibility to obtain high level security clearance.

Please note: It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career.

Your Benefits

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of one stage of interviews.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.