Senior Software Test Engineer

Project overview

Senior Test Engineer (Active SC Clearance Required)

Responsibilities

What You Need:

If interested, kindly share me your updated CV to dona. thomas @randstad digital.com

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

• Develop monthly release test plans, defining scope, acceptance criteria, and environment requirements.
• Execute functional and risk-based regression testing to validate business logic, data flows, and system interactions.
• Manage defects using Jira, Zephyr, or TestRail, and run defect-triage meetings.
• Produce robust release test summaries and evidence packs for customer sign-off.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive functional test cases where possible.
• Active UK SC Clearance.
• 5+ years of software testing experience in enterprise or defence IT environments.
• Deep expertise in manual functional testing, regression testing, and defect management.
• Experience with test management platforms like Jira, Zephyr, or Confluence.
• Working knowledge of UK Defence standards and secure government data boundaries.

Project details

Bristol, UK (100% Onsite)

ASAP until June 2027

We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer for a long-term contract supporting a major IT Programme. In this fully onsite role based in Bristol, you will take operational ownership of monthly In-Service Release (ISR) cycles, ensuring all new features and updates meet strict functional and security requirements.

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 8 months
• Location: Bristol, Bristol, GB
• Rate: 50-56 EUR/h