Software Tester

Role Overview

• Develop, update, and maintain NIRIS test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, and test data in accordance with agreed requirements, priorities, technical direction, release planning, and project objectives.
• Perform manual, automated, functional, regression, integration, and system testing to support the continued maintenance, validation, and evolution of the NIRIS software baseline.
• Support the full software testing lifecycle of NIRIS, including test analysis, test design, test implementation, test execution, defect reporting, retesting, regression testing, and test documentation.
• Develop, update, and maintain automated test scripts and test automation assets to improve test coverage, repeatability, maintainability, and regression testing capability.
• Support integration and verification activities to ensure that developed, updated, or maintained NIRIS software components operate correctly within the wider NIRIS system and in line with agreed interface, interoperability, and operational requirements.
• Analyse, investigate, document, and report software defects, test failures, anomalies, and quality issues identified during testing, integration, verification, release preparation, or operational support activities.
• Support the verification of defect fixes and software changes by performing retesting, regression testing, and validation against agreed acceptance criteria and requirements.
• Develop, update, and maintain test documentation, including test plans, test cases, test execution reports, defect reports, regression test evidence, automation documentation, and other project deliverables as required.
• Contribute to virtual and in-person meetings, reviews, planning sessions, sprint ceremonies, technical discussions, test coordination activities, and release readiness reviews with NCIA stakeholders and project team members.
• Ensure that all testing activities, test artefacts, automated scripts, defect reports, and associated deliverables comply with applicable NCIA testing standards, quality requirements, configuration management practices, and agreed project procedures.
• Update and expand the produced test assets, automated test scripts, test data, and documentation as necessary to accommodate new, revised, or emerging requirements throughout the duration of the engagement.
• Support the improvement of NIRIS software quality, reliability, maintainability, interoperability, and operational readiness by providing structured testing, clear test evidence, and timely feedback to the project team.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in software testing and quality assurance, with a focus on complex software systems, networked applications, or distributed environments.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing, in a clear, structured, and professional manner.
• Demonstrated experience in working within Agile/Scrum environments, including participation in sprint planning, test planning, sprint execution, defect triage, sprint reviews, and release preparation activities.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in designing, writing, executing, and maintaining manual test cases, including functional, regression, integration, interface, and release-related test scenarios.
• At least 3 years of experience in defect identification, defect reporting, retesting, regression testing, and defect verification using issue tracking and test management tools.
• At least 2 years of experience testing RESTful services, APIs, messaging systems, or data exchange interfaces, including verification of request/response behaviour, data processing, data filtering, and error handling.
• At least 2 years of experience testing Web GUI, REST API, and command-line interfaces, preferably for networking products or interface-heavy software systems.
• At least 2 years of experience working with interoperability testing, including testing of data exchange, message handling, configuration, integration with external systems, or multi-system test environments.
• At least 2 years of professional experience working with test automation frameworks, such as Robot Framework, Gauge, Cucumber, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar.
• At least 1 year of professional experience with scripting or programming languages used to support test automation, test execution, troubleshooting, or environment configuration, such as Java, Python, Linux Bash, Ansible, or similar.
• At least 1 year of professional experience working with containerized or virtualized test environments, including Docker, or equivalent technologies.
• Demonstrated experience using development, testing, and configuration management tools such as Jira, Zephyr, GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, or equivalent tools.
• Demonstrable experience in preparing and maintaining test documentation, including test plans, test cases, test execution reports, defect reports, verification evidence, regression reports, and release readiness inputs.
• Experience in defining test scenarios, acceptance criteria, validation approaches, or verification evidence for software deliverables.
• Demonstrable ability to troubleshoot and support issue analysis on Windows Server and Linux-based operating systems, including basic knowledge of IP addressing, routing, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Active Directory, certificate management, and service configuration.
• Demonstrable knowledge or experience in interoperability and data exchange standards, particularly within defence. Knowledge of Tactical Data Links, including Link 16, Link 22, OTH-Gold, JREAP, VMF, DIS, AIS, CESMO, or similar standards, is highly desirable.
• Experience working with distributed systems and multi-component architectures, including integration and testing across multiple data sources, services, interfaces, or external systems.
• Familiarity with secure testing practices, controlled test environments, information handling requirements, and working within regulated or accredited environments.
• Possession of relevant technical or testing certifications, including ISTQB, TMap, Microsoft, Red Hat, CompTIA, Cisco, or equivalent certifications, is desirable.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Cypress
• Distributed Systems
• DNS
• Docker
• Java
• Linux
• Python
• Selenium

Benefits

• Not Applicable