Software Test Team Lead

Role Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and mentor a team of software test engineers, helping them develop technical capability, product knowledge, and effective test practices.
• Own the planning, coordination, and execution of software testing activities across features, releases, products, and technical initiatives.
• Define and maintain test strategies, test plans, test cases, test environments, and test completion criteria aligned with product requirements and engineering priorities.
• Work closely with software engineering, systems engineering, product management, operations, and project stakeholders to understand requirements, risks, schedules, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure appropriate testing coverage across functional, integration, regression, performance, reliability, usability, security, and system-level test activities where applicable.
• Promote the effective use of automated testing, test tooling, CI/CD integration, defect tracking, and test reporting to improve quality and delivery confidence.
• Review requirements, designs, user stories, test documentation, and release plans to identify risks, gaps, ambiguities, and opportunities for early defect prevention.
• Manage defect triage, root cause analysis, retesting, regression testing, and quality risk reporting throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Provide clear visibility of test progress, product quality, defect trends, risks, blockers, and readiness for release.
• Drive continuous improvement in testing processes, quality standards, test environments, tools, and team ways of working.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in software testing, quality assurance, or verification and validation, ideally within embedded, communications, defence, or mission-critical software environments.
• Proven ability to lead testing activities and coordinate the work of a software test team across multiple priorities and releases.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including test design, exploratory testing, regression testing, integration testing, acceptance testing, and defect lifecycle management.
• Experience creating and maintaining test plans, test cases, test scripts, test frameworks, test evidence, test reports, and release quality assessments.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements review through to final test, release support, and post-release defect analysis.
• Practical experience with test management tools, defect tracking systems, source control, CI/CD pipelines, and automated test frameworks.
• Ability to communicate quality status, technical risks, defect impact, and release readiness clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify root causes and make pragmatic quality recommendations.
• Experience mentoring testers and building a collaborative, disciplined, and quality-focused team culture.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering reliable, maintainable, and customer-ready products.

Desirable Skills

• Experience testing embedded communication platforms such as Software Defined Radios (SDRs) would be desirable but not essential.
• Experience with test automation using scripting or programming languages such as Python, C, C++, MATLAB, or similar.
• Knowledge of hardware-in-the-loop, system integration, RF, networking, protocol, or device-level testing.
• Familiarity with regulated, safety-critical, security-sensitive, defence, or ISO 9001 quality management environments.
• ISTQB or equivalent software testing certification.
• Experience improving test maturity, test coverage, defect prevention, release quality metrics, or engineering quality processes.
• Experience supporting recruitment, onboarding, performance development, and progression planning for software test engineers.
• Experience with CE Radio Equipment Directive, FCC and other government RF compliance requirements

Success Measures

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