Key Notes
Test-environment ownership links logistics, commissioning and technical assurance in this Salfords engineering role. The engineer configures equipment, controls test baselines, prepares customer-witnessed tests, analyses error logs and manages patches, smoke tests and defects through to Repair Centre action. Relevant test experience, networks, Azure and engineering qualifications are sought, with ITIL and specialist electrical or Siemens credentials listed as desirable.
What You'll Work On
- Install, configure and commission equipment and systems entering Cubic’s Test area, agreeing equipment needs with Test and Engineering teams.
- Maintain test environments, investigate error logs and replace defective units to keep test equipment in working order.
- Coordinate patches and smoke tests for the different environments with IT Infrastructure teams.
- Arrange correction of defective modules with the Repair Centre and report progress, issues and complications to management.
- Maintain equipment configuration records and prepare the test area for customer visits and witnessed tests.
Why This Role Matters
- Cubic’s project and customer-witnessed tests can proceed with working equipment when commissioning, configuration control and test-area preparation keep the required environments available.
- Test devices with logged faults move through investigation and Repair Centre coordination, enabling defective modules to be corrected and returned to the test environment.
What They Are Looking For
- Experience: Test experience across multiple devices in transport, automated fare collection or automotive is required.
- Qualification: An engineering degree or equivalent qualification or experience is required.
- Technical: Basic network knowledge is required, alongside Networking, Unix or Microsoft qualifications, or equivalent qualifications or experience.
- Technical: Formal Microsoft Azure training or extensive experience and Microsoft MCSE/MSCA accreditations are required.
- Eligibility: Basic security checks are required for this role.
- Preferred: ITIL Foundation, City & Guilds 2394 and 2395 Electrical Testing & Connecting Certification or similar, and Siemens IC 4 Configuration training and accreditation are desirable.