Cybersecurity & Test Engineer

A leading technology manufacturer is looking for a Cybersecurity & Test Engineer to join its Product Development team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in improving product cybersecurity, software quality, and firmware release processes across a portfolio of innovative embedded products.

Working closely with firmware, software, hardware, quality and compliance teams, you’ll help ensure products are secure, robust and meet evolving regulatory requirements throughout the development lifecycle. You’ll be responsible for leading cybersecurity assessment activities while supporting secure software development, firmware release management and embedded systems testing. About the Role

• Lead cybersecurity assessments across embedded and network-connected products.
• Identify cybersecurity risks, vulnerabilities and compliance gaps, recommending practical mitigation strategies.
• Investigate and resolve cybersecurity issues within embedded products.
• Support customer, partner and regulatory cybersecurity enquiries.
• Produce cybersecurity documentation, technical evidence and risk assessments.
• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
• Ensure cybersecurity requirements are embedded throughout development, testing and release activities.
• Promote secure development best practice across engineering teams.
• Own the technical aspects of firmware release management.
• Coordinate release readiness, including verification, validation, traceability and release approval.
• Maintain software release records and support configuration management activities.
• Investigate issues identified during release validation and field deployment.
• Develop and execute structured test plans for embedded and connected products.
• Design, develop and maintain automated test environments and frameworks.
• Write test specifications against product requirements and relevant standards.
• Perform manual and automated testing throughout the product lifecycle.
• Work closely with development teams to identify, document and resolve defects.
• Work alongside Quality and Compliance teams to support certification and regulatory activities.
• Produce technical documentation required for audits, certification and customer assessments.

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or HND (or equivalent) with relevant commercial experience.
• Experience testing and validating embedded systems.
• Experience writing structured test specifications and executing product validation throughout the development lifecycle.
• Experience with automated test frameworks and test automation (ideally Python).
• Experience testing embedded hardware via interfaces e.g. USB, UART / RS232, IP networking
• Strong understanding of embedded systems and software development processes.
• Understanding of cybersecurity principles for embedded and connected products.
• Experience investigating technical issues and performing root cause analysis.
• Understanding of software release processes, version control and traceability.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work within multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of cybersecurity standards e.g. Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), EN18031, IEC62443
• Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines or automated build/test systems.
• Git and modern software release practices.
• Testing embedded web applications or connected devices.
• Experience with BLE, Zigbee or Thread.
• Embedded hardware testing and troubleshooting.