Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection’s threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place. 

Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.  

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

Duties:

• Design and develop detailed test plans, procedures, scenarios, and scripts to thoroughly evaluate new products or software updates, ensuring they meet customer requirements and company quality standards.
• Develop comprehensive testing protocols for various areas, including usability, database impact, error detection, regression testing, and real-world implementation scenarios. This includes understanding how software changes may affect the underlying database, ensuring that functionality is not compromised, and that system performance is optimized across all layers.
• Identify and analyze software defects, bugs, functionality issues, and output errors, documenting them in detail and collaborating with developers to resolve issues. Special attention is given to how updates might affect data flow, storage, and retrieval, potentially influencing database performance or integrity.
• Track and document issues, resolutions, and bug fixes throughout the testing process, maintaining a detailed database of defects and successful mitigation strategies, ensuring that potential database-related issues are closely monitored and addressed.
• Create clear and thorough documentation of test procedures for each phase or project to ensure replicability, compliance with standards, and growth of the company’s knowledge base, while also factoring in how changes may impact database interactions.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams—including developers, product owners, and clients—to ensure quick resolution of issues, with particular awareness of potential database-related impacts and their broader implications on the system.
• Provide regular feedback to developers, offering suggestions for improvements, evaluating issues, proposing solutions, and identifying further testing needs, while considering how software changes could indirectly affect database operations.
• Implement and maintain automated testing tools as needed, ensuring they are updated and aligned with current testing requirements, including any necessary updates to address database impact in automated test cases.

Skills and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electronics & Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 4-7 years of Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks, including the ability to design, implement, and maintain test automation solutions.
• Proficient in coding and modifying complex automated software testing programs, both at the system level and front-end applications.
• Experience in developing Simulators and Emulators desirable
• Exposure on system controllers (scanners preferred) working, development and testing
• Good experience with Atlassian suite of products including JIRA, Bit Bucket, Confluence, Test Management tools like TestRail and Version Control Systems such as Git, Subversion, and integration tools like Jenkins.
• Good understanding on software development processes and testing methodologies, with the ability to collaborate effectively across development and testing teams.
• Familiarity with continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipelines for automated testing.
• Ability to work with various testing tools, including Robot Framework, TestNG, Python and other relevant test automation libraries.
• Experience in writing clear, detailed test cases and maintaining accurate documentation of test results.
• Quick to adapt and learn complex systems and new technologies.
• Familiarity with open-source toolchains and technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly.

We offer…

Join us and we’ll help build your career, with excellent training and opportunities for career growth across the business, both locally and globally. You’ll experience an inclusive environment, with strong leadership and a focus on safety and wellbeing. You’ll also have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, offering you and your family support from a health and wellbeing, financial and lifestyle perspective.

Join us and work for a world-leader, with the benefits and training to reward your dedication and skills. Be part of a team where we are making the world a safer place.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career’s website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)