Test and Acceptance Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Test and Acceptance Engineer

Location: Christchurch

Salary: Up to £38,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop and/or maintain a set of tests that prove the functionality of the system to be delivered
• Carry out testing activities during the product lifecycle
• Partake in customer witnessed acceptance test events at customer sites
• Produce and update test reports and test schedules
• Rig management – carrying out deployments, installing patches and managing configurations/test environments
• Defect clearance
• Verification and Validation

Your skills and experiences:

• Previous experience in a testing role – integration, regression, acceptance and performance testing
• Creation of test case definition through requirements analysis
• Ability to complete fault analysis and reporting to development teams
• Must be prepared to work away from home for short periods in MoD environments
• Experience with defect tracking tools
• Experience of non-functional and functional testing strategies and execution

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 team:

As a Test and Acceptance Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability and performance of the system through testing and defect identification. This role involves designing and executing test cases, documenting results, and collaborating closely with others in the test team, developers, and other stakeholder to deliver high-quality software that meets business and user requirements. You will play a key role in identifying issues early in the software development lifecycle to ensure quality standards are maintained.

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: 12th February 2026

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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