Test and Testability

Copello are supporting a leading Defence client in their search for a Test & Testability Expert to play a key role in shaping how systems are tested across their full lifecycle - from early concept through to production and in-service support.

You'll report into the Head of Test & Testability, with strong project links to the Project Chief Design Engineer, and act as a Subject Matter Expert across multiple programmes.

As part of the Test & Testability Architecture team, you'll help define smarter test strategies, improve Built-In Test architectures, and raise the quality and consistency of test specifications across projects - removing waste and focusing effort where it adds real value.

This is a senior, influential role where your technical expertise will directly shape product quality, efficiency, and ways of working.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own and define project test strategies and BIT architectures, including coverage requirements

• Improve how test equipment requirements and specifications are written across programmes

• Lead analysis of production test data to identify trends and diagnose failures

• Model and analyse system test coverage and generate diagnostic instructions

• Drive continuous improvement in ways of working across Test & Testability

• Support Red Team reviews and critical issue resolution during development and manufacture

• Support new product bids and early feasibility studies

• Identify, document, and deploy best practice across the department

• Mentor and support engineers within the Test & Testability team

• Contribute to and lead technology and capability roadmaps

• Degree-level education (or equivalent experience)

• Significant experience in electronic test across the full project lifecycle

• Strong background in:

• Electronic circuit design, test, and failure analysis

• Test equipment design

• Requirements capture and specification

• Design for Test (DfT) and testability

• Proven ability to provide technical leadership across complex design projects

• Experience influencing senior technical and business stakeholders

• Willingness to travel within the UK and EU when required