Job Title: Test Analyst
Location: Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Leicester, Leicestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38, - £42, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Test Analyst at our Devonport Royal Dockyard, Babcock Technology Centre or Radar Road Leicester sites.
The role
As a Test Analyst, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join our team and work with advanced systems that ensure the operational readiness of the Submarine fleet. Play a key role in supporting critical maritime operations, contributing to the success of complex engineering solutions.
Day-to-day, you’ll conduct testing of essential applications to ensure submarine capability, reliability, and operational effectiveness. Verify system performance and functionality to support mission readiness.
1. Review requirements and design documents to create test estimates, plans, cases, and scripts for functional and non-functional testing.
2. Execute systems tests, ensuring coverage of both functional and non-functional aspects.
3. Use test tools like Test Rail, Azure DevOps, and Selenium for efficient test execution.
4. Facilitate discussions between Systems Test and UAT to define scope and coverage.
This role is full time 35, hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements, with 2 days on site and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Test Analyst
5. Expertise in software application testing, covering both functional and non-functional aspects.
6. Proficiency in Azure DevOps and Selenium.
7. Experience working in Agile methodology
8. Knowledge of SQL for database validation and testing.
9. Ambition to drive and shape personal career development.
Qualifications for the Test Analyst
10. Must hold ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) Foundation Level certification, confirming expertise as a certified Software Tester.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
19. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.