Principal Test Engineer
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Location: London
Job type: Permanent
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Contact: James Townsend
Sector: Operations
Job Role:
Oaklands Global are currently working with a leading Aerospace Communications company based in London and assisting within the recruitment of Principal Test Engineer.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Test Engineer to join an exciting and growing company.
Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Test Engineer will be to;
- Lead a team of Senior Test Engineers and Test Engineers to execute, analyse, and deliver reports for System and Acceptance testing campaigns.
- Produce document templates to support the generation of industry standard documentation
- Effectively communicate results from the testing to management.
- Chair meetings involving sub-contractors and/or customers.
- Communicate and build relationships with internally and externally interfaces.
- Act as a lead reviewer/Quality assurance for all documentation produced by the senior engineers
- Act as technical author to the test team
- Chair team meetings and assist in the resource management of test campaigns.
- Mentor Senior Test Engineers and Test Engineers and identify training needs and performance issues
- Support key meetings throughout the test process (K.O, TRR, PTR and progress meetings)
- Production of test plans specific to the airline.
- Interaction with the airlines for running the customer acceptance test demonstrations
- Support the execution of test cases, the capture of test results and supporting data.
- Identify required configurations and changes to configurations to support test campaigns.
- Act as point of delegation to the Head of Test and Verification Services
Technical Skills:
- Related work experience and a degree in a technical subject (Engineering/Physics/Computing/Networking/Electronics.).
- Possess in-depth knowledge of satellite systems, or telecommunication networks (LTE/3G/etc.).
- Experience in leading in a technical environment.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience using HP-ALM/JIRA packages.
- Knowledge of basic networking concepts (TCP-IP/DNS/DHCP/Network Routing/ICMP).
- Quality Assurance and Project Management experience would be advantageous.
- Experience testing SatCom/Mobile systems.
Why work with Oaklands Global?
Oaklands Global is a supplier of choice for leading Aviation & Aerospace Companies worldwide. We understand what our Client’s need and equally as importantly what they don’t need. The same goes for our Candidates. Oaklands Global has over 25 years supporting candidates at all levels to help identify and secure their next position. At Oaklands Global we manage all applications with the upmost professionalism and confidentiality.
If the above opportunity is of interest to you please forward your CV to James Townsend
Please note that due to high numbers of applications, unless you are contact within 7 days of your application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Only candidates eligible to work in the EU will be considered for this position.
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