This role might suit a recent software engineering graduate or a junior engineer, the role being to provide all aspects of software support and development to designated customers, and assisting the consumer team in creating high quality wireless consumer products. Your solid software engineering background will allow you to write and debug C based applications and test scripts, whilst your good problem solving skills and ability to think laterally will help you to develop solutions using new technologies.

A good understanding of Bluetooth profiles, TLC, DSP, etc would be useful, as will be the willingness and ability to learn and develop new skills.

This could be the career opportunity that you have been waiting for! This exciting young company now seek a Senior Software Test Engineer who has the capacity to lead a 3-4 person Test Team.

Reporting directly to the VP of software, your responsibilities will include defining the detailed test plans, day-to-day line management, maintaining test metrics, reporting on test progress, and software release to final QA. Attention to detail is essential - as in an ability to generate full coverage test cases.

With a solid academic record, you will have extensive software test experience and the ability to learn quickly - with a natural ability to manage a test team to enable robust, quality software to be shipped to schedule.

A knowledge of operating systems design / system level software, silicon/software co-design, and networkings (Ethernet, TCP/IP), code coverage analysis, test tracking tools such as Aptest, IXIA hardware and software test tools, Python and PCIe would be a major advantage

This is a superb opportunity - with excellent rewards, including share options and a competitive benefits package.

Thorough testing is embedded in our client's development culture. On every project, test engineers work with developers, usability specialists and technical authors from start to finish - QA is not an afterthought. Top quality testers are vital to their continued growth and they are looking for more.

You should only apply if you share their commitment to relentless testing, and constantly look for ways to break everything put in front of you. This is a technical role, and you will be expected to test both API and GUI layers, and to write automated test code.

Your skills and experience should include:
- Degree-level education or equivalent
- Experience of testing in a structured development environment
- Exposure to programming
- Good understanding of software test tools and techniques

Exposure to the following technologies is a bonus: SQL databases, IDEs, SQL, C#, Test Case Management systems, TCP-IP, Automated Test Tools

Contact us now and you could be joining an exceptional company who are a real success story - both for the quality of their products and for being a superb place to work.

The opportunity for an experienced Software Test Engineer to join this top company who are acknowledged leaders in their field.

Key Responsibilities:
- Design, Implement and Execute Test Programme for both black-box and white-box testing.
- Analyse Test results (functional compliance, performance, stability, memory usage).
- Control test plan (analysis of test result, fault reporting and tracking of fixes).
- Responsibility for the software releases.
- Customer interaction – support program, management of open fault and correction plan.

Person Specification:

Required:

- Test plan formulation.
- Able to write scripts.
- Good Unix skills.
- Analysis of collected information (able to use Excel or alternative data-plotting packages).
- Able to write report acceptable to external customer.
- Understanding of C++, capable of performing code review.
- Minimum degree level

Desired:

- Telecom background
- Understanding of GSM/W-CDMA infrastructure
- Exposure to Multi-threaded systems

This exciting young company now seek an ambitious System Test Engineer to join the team.

Using an automated test framework you will design and implement both manual and automated test cases - using commercial test tools. You will gain a detailed understanding of the software design, by reviewing code coverage analysis and by discussions with development engineers.

You will ideally have a degree-level education and a good understanding of networking and the configuration of TCP/IP based networks (under Linux and Windows).

You should be a fast learner with good attention to detail and the confidence to ask for help if required. Familiarity with Python would be an advantage.

This is a superb opportunity - with excellent rewards, including share options and a competitive benefits package.

This is a great opportunity to become an important part of a fantastic team in one of Cambridge's most exciting and fastest-moving high-technology companies. This world leading company design and develop innovative ground-breaking systems and applications.

With continued success, they are expanding their technical team of well-qualified hardware, software and systems engineers. They offer a stimulating and vibrant working environment which still retains the exciting, fast paced feel of a start-up - but with the security of an established, successful company. They are committed to providing a great working environment where employees enjoy significant career potential and excellent working conditions.

You should have a good understanding of electronics / physics and a track record in the design and implementation of electronic systems to solve complex real-world problems - with demonstrable commercial experience, having delivered solutions into volume manufacturing.

The role will include:

- Design and prototyping of digital and analogue hardware
- Analysis of circuits and systems to verify performance
- Enhancing products to simplify support and maintenance
- Development of ATE test solutions
- Support for transfer to manufacturing

Any exposure to comms / sensor based systems and distributed software / embedded environments would also be an advantage.

In addition to a competitive salary the role also offers a wide-ranging benefits package, including a bonus scheme and share options.

Summary: An excellent opportunity to join an exciting and expanding company in Cambridge's high-tech sector.

With this exceptional software company (who have a shelf-full of awards to prove it!).

Our client is looking for a talented user experience professional to ensure their products are highly intuitive, usable and meet the needs of their customers. Your role will be to ensure the continual evaluation of their products in order to improve the user’s experience.

You will be an expert at moderating usability tests, and with your excellent communication skills, you’ll elicit the most value out of the participants. The ability to succinctly and clearly feed back the results into the development process will be a key skill in this fast paced environment.

Your skills and experience should include:
- A good undergraduate or postgraduate degree in HCI or other relevant discipline
- A passion for usability
- Relevant commercial experience
- A broad experience of usability issues

Excellent benefits and a truly top-rate workplace are offered in return.

Keywords: usability, user experience, HCI, Cambridge

Summary: Senior Technician Engineer needed by growing, international electronics company, Hertfordshire, to £25k.

This growing international company specialises in highly innovative product test equipment and seeks a Senior Technician Engineer to calibrate and repair a wide range of electronic test equipment, both on and off site. You will ensure that the production of all required documentation associated with the task is carried out with due regard to accuracy, content and promptness, that all duties are carried out in accordance with Company Quality Standards and relevant Health and Safety regulations, and you will be required to do other service related activities that may be required by management from time to time.

You should be educated to HNC or equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering and have previous experience of working in an electronic calibration laboratory. A broad knowledge of electronic test equipment and calibration methods is essential, as is experience of RF and Microwave instruments. An understanding of auto-calibration systems would be an advantage with experience of writing test system software. You must be computer literate and a good team player.

Keywords: Electronics, Technician, RF, Microwave, Hertfordshire.

Summary: Growing, high technology company specialising in knowledge search solutions seeks Software QA / Support Engineer, Cambridge, to £32k.

This growing software company specialises in data mining solutions for blue chip clients. You will be responsible for the development, maintenance and implementation of test scripts for both the GUI and back-end of a real-time information extraction system. Working closely with the development team, you will review feature requirements, produce test plans and carry out testing and analyse the results on Unix and Windows platforms.

Part of the technical support team, you will be taking email and telephone requests for support, diagnosing the problems described, generating and testing solutions and providing a clear response at an appropriate level of detail for the customer.

You will have strong interpersonal and communication skills and be able to work with other staff to get across new ideas and respond to requirements. You must also be able to work in a fast-moving start-up environment, which requires multi-tasking, flexibility and the ability to work in a small, highly motivated team. You will have commercial experience of the full software lifecycle and experience of command-line tools and scripting. Any experience of commercial programming, software validation/QA or compliance will be advantageous.

Keywords: Cambridge, Software QA, Software Support, Command Line Tools, Scripting, Software Test.

Summary: Technicians required for growing international company, Hertfordshire, to £21k.

This growing international company seeks high calibre Technicians to calibrate and repair a wide range of electronic test equipment. You will conduct repairs on a wide range of electronic equipment, ensuring that the production of all required documentation associated with the task is carried out with due regard to accuracy, content and promptness, that all duties are carried out in accordance with Company Quality Standards and relevant Health and Safety regulations, and that you will be involved with other service related activities that may be required by management from time to time.

You should be educated to HNC or equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering and preferably have previous experience of working in an electronic calibration laboratory. Computer literacy is essential along with the ability to calibrate and repair electronic equipment.

Keywords: Electronics, Technician, Hertfordshire.