Test Design Engineer
Thales
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cheadle • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead the design and architecture of test solutions for complex aerospace and defence systems, ensuring compliance with MOD and industry standards.
- Define test strategies, frameworks, and architectures to support product development, verification, qualification, and in-service support.
- Translate system and customer requirements into effective test system requirements and architectures.
- Ensure test solutions integrate seamlessly with hardware, software, and system environments.
- Work closely with design engineers, test engineers, and programme managers to ensure traceability and compliance throughout the lifecycle.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Contribute to bid and proposal activity, providing technical input to estimates, schedules, and solution concepts.
- Engage directly with key stakeholders to ensure alignment with defence standards, policies, and best practices.
- Drive innovation in test methods, including automation, digital twins, and model-based test approaches.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Test Systems Architect / Test Systems Engineer.
- Strong background in test system design and architecture.
- Experience of integrating hardware, software, and COTS solutions into test.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to interface with customers.
- Demonstrable ability to work across the full system lifecycle – from concept through to in-service support.
- Advantageous: Experience with test automation.
- Advantageous: Knowledge of safety, security, and information assurance in defence systems.
Benefits
- Health and well-being flexibility for part-time hours, job sharing, home working, or flexible start and finish times.
- Professional development support, including chartership and advanced training.
- Opportunity to shape next-generation test systems for critical aerospace and defence programmes.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
test system designtest system architecturetest strategiestest frameworkstest automationintegration of hardwareintegration of softwareCOTS solutionsmodel-based testingdigital twins
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunication skillstechnical leadershipmentoringguidancecollaborationalignment with standardsinnovationproblem-solvinginterfacing with customers