Software Development Engineer in Test

Department: Product
Location: Reading (Hybrid)

About Altitude Angel 

The end of 2024 marked a decade of Altitude Angel – a journey driven by innovation, collaboration and a shared vision of shaping future skies with the safe and unsegregated integration of uncrewed aviation.  

Since the beginnings in 2014, we’ve transformed the landscape of drone and airspace management, delivering future proof solutions to connect skies and communities safely and efficiently.   

By laying the foundations for the safe integration of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into shared airspace, we’ve paved the way for the future of advanced air mobility (AAM). 

About the Role 

As a Software Development Engineer in Test at Altitude Angel, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of aviation technology. You will design and build test systems that validate and benchmark the performance of our world-leading Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) platform, enabling the safe integration of drones into airspace. 

We are looking for a talented individual who is passionate about working as part of a team delivering quality engineering solutions to real world problems. You will have the opportunity to innovate and collaborate whilst playing a hands-on role in delivering tomorrow’s skies.  

What You will Do

• Develop automated test scenarios using reusable code, supported by automated tooling
• Maintain existing automated test code repositories, investigating and addressing test failures within CI/CD pipelines
• Identify new testing requirements, creating and executing both manual and automated acceptance tests
• Perform exploratory UI and API testing, identifying suitable test scenarios for automation
• Investigate and reproduce technically challenging defects and test fixes
• Work with the development team to define and implement automation and test strategy
• Ensure that quality guidelines, engineering standards and agile principles are upheld within software development teams 
  

 What You will Bring

• Demonstrable commercial experience in automated test development
• Evidence of commercial experience in owning quality within an agile/scrum development process
• Experience with git source control
• Experience working with project management tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps for bug tracking and task management  

Desirable

• Experience validating the quality of safety-critical systems 
• Experience testing systems with a real-time data delivery component 
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes 
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development processes 
• Experience writing automated UI tests using a Typescript-based test framework 
• Familiarity with integrating automated tests within CI/CD pipelines 

Who You Are?

• Competent tester with good attention to detail 
• Passionate about test automation with good knowledge on how best to make use of it 
• Capable of owning quality for software projects, ensuring that every increment is built according to specification to a high quality 
• An excellent communicator and collaborator who works well as part of a team 
• You are a clear, well organised logical thinker with the ability to respond to dynamic situations when under pressure, applying the same clear, logical thinking 

What’s in it for you? 

At Altitude Angel we are dedicated to creating a positive working environment which empowers our employees to be the best version of themselves. Through personalised Career Development Plans and generous home/work life-balance considerations, we support our team to work in the best way for them. 

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays   
• Company Pension Scheme  
• Cyclescheme  
• Employee referral scheme  
• Quarterly team socials    

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Altitude Angel  

Here at Altitude Angel we are committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness in line with our mission to safely and securely open the skies for all. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation, our products and Altitude Angel's achievement as well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. 

Apply Today

With drones becoming more and more prevalent, we are looking for individuals who are eager to help us build and deliver the solutions which have the potential to change the world. If you want to join us and be at the forefront of the aerial revolution, apply today.