Acceptance Lead

Job title: Acceptance Lead

Location: New Malden. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Liaising effectively with internal/external stakeholders, technical leads and customers to ensure test activities align with program objectives and timelines. Act as a point of contact with customers and/or suppliers in assigned areas on engineering matters, to resolve relatively complex problems and issues and to maintain awareness in both parties of priorities and objectives
• Mapping requirements to detailed test steps, ensuring full traceability and coverage across the test lifecycle
• Monitoring, logging, and managing defects raised during testing. Coordinating with relevant teams to plan and execute retests until closure
• Developing and maintaining detailed test timetables and trackers to support efficient test execution and progress monitoring
• Collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams to maintain alignment with system-level requirements and acceptance criteria
• Provide help and direction to less experienced team members to support both their effective working and their development

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experienced in delivering end-to-end Acceptance engineering activities on a scale such as the Shared Infrastructure environment
• Experience with Test Management tools such as within IBM’s Engineering Lifecycle Management
• Experienced in tracking requirements mapped to detailed test steps and managing defect resolution
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc

Desirable:

• A good understanding of configuration management principles, discipline and software tools
• Competence and capability with requirements capture and management using tools such as Rational DOORS
• Team leading experience using task and progress tracking tools such as Atlassian JIRA

Engineers at all levels should possess an academic qualification in Engineering or other related STEM subjects as well as specific (either academic or professional) qualifications and become recognised as Incorporated or Chartered Engineers through an appropriate recognised professional institution.

Engineers are encouraged, and will be supported, to achieve the relevant accreditation.

Preference will be given to candidates who are already professionally registered.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Common Engineering Services Team:

This team plays a pivotal role in ensuring that systems engineering across BAE Systems aligns with industry best practices. This team is responsible for maintaining and delivering a standardized set of engineering products and services that support consistent, high-quality outcomes across all projects. By focusing on common tools, frameworks, and methodologies, they help streamline engineering processes, enhance collaboration, and ensure that all solutions meet rigorous technical and customer standards.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing date: 11th July 2025– Interviews will be held w/c 21st July 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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