Job Title: Lead Software Test Engineer
Location: Hawthorn, Corsham – Hybrid working available.
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65559
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 Lead Software Engineer at our Hawthorn, Corsham site.
The role
As a Lead Software Test Engineer, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the entire software development lifecycle and you are responsible for design, planning, execution and assuring suitability of the New Management System (NMS), in accordance with the project delivery lifecycle.
The system provides the management platform to operate satellites for Britain’s global communication for Government services.
Working closely alongside the Software Architect and Lead Software Engineer to deliver software systems to tight timescales across multiple phases of the project.
The Lead Software Test Engineer will manage a team of Software Engineering resources to help deliver each work package on time.
- Working in an Agile software team to create and review Test Plans and Test Scripts for User Stories, Business Requirements or System Requirements.
- Assist defining test process for delivering the system.
- Defining appropriate tooling for use while testing the system
- Contributing to the team activities, including hands-on execution of testing, both manual and automated; ensuring repeatable and verifiable test records.
- Documenting and defining guidelines (e.g. Software Delivery Plan) for delivering the system.
- Designing the product, updates and improvements.
- Analysing data and tracking metrics to ensure that the solution is performing well.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Hawthorn, Corsham. Majority of the role can be remote.
Essential experience of the Lead Software Engineer
- You must have hands-on experience with C#.
- You must have experience leading a team of any size.
Qualifications for the Lead Software Engineer
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock
We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing Date: 15/07/2026
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