Senior ITEA Test Engineer

As a Senior ITEA Test Engineer, you will drive the verification, validation and acceptance of services and capabilities within the Army Collective Training programme. You’ll operate in a cross-functional, matrix environment, shaping test strategies and automating validation to support the British Army’s training transformation. Your work will impact how training systems are developed, validated and deployed, contributing to safer, more effective defence training. This role offers mission-focused impact and collaboration across defence partners.

• Create, execute and maintain manual test plans
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts
• Develop test automation strategies and reports compliant with project guidelines
• Deputise for the ITEA Lead when required
• Define and manage test environments, data, and tools
• Integrate test automation into deployment pipelines
• Lead and support work packages, including estimations and readiness reviews
• Promote test automation best practices across teams and projects
• Mentor junior team members and foster innovation, agility and continuous improvement
• Champion environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement
• Define test criteria and acceptance in the VVRM
• Perform other duties to meet programme needs

• Proven track record creating manual test scripts
• Proven experience with scripted test automation to improve quality and coverage
• Experience in creating and managing test automation frameworks
• Experience in Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model
• Experience inputting to and managing VVRM across systems
• Senior Engineer experience within ITEA Test Teams
• Broad technology experience with enterprise capability development
• Experience in ITEA Sampling approaches and techniques
• Strong systems engineering principles and processes understanding
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior team members
• Test and Trial script planning and test automation

• strong stakeholder engagement
• team collaboration
• mentoring and coaching
• test automation frameworks
• manual and automated test scripting
• VVRM verification and validation management