Principal Test Engineer - Portsmouth - £35 per hour (DC-100602)

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Principal Test Engineer
Also United Arab Emirates
£35 per hour

A subsidiary of a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services is currently seeking to recruit a Principal Test Engineer on a 6 month contract basis.

** There are 2 options available with this role and the individual may be prefer to be located in Portsmouth, with possible deployment to United Arab Emirates (UAE) as necessary or the candidate may prefer to be based in UAE from day one - please specify or preference or state if you do not mind **

4 Engineers are required for the integration of sub systems into one complete system, running tests from test procedure documents, fault finding, fault reporting with debug information, fault solution testing and support to field personnel in the UAE.

Candidate should demonstrate knowledge or skills in one or more of the following areas:

1) Management Systems - Integration of Management systems including use of applications for Customer Order Handling, Service Planning, Network Planning and Network Element Configuration.

2) Baseband Systems - Integration and VVandT for Telephony including Voice and Data over IP; Performance Testing of Voice and IP traffic over communications networks, including Policing and Prioritisation of IP services; Knowledge of CISCO equipment and ability to configure and fault find IP networks; Use of CRYPTOs in networks

3) Satcom Modems - Interfacing of Satcom Modems to Baseband IP networks including network synchronisation; Interfacing Modems to Transmission Systems; Interfacing Modems with Element Manager and Terminal Management Applications; Knowledge of modulation techniques and performance implications and performance implications of "error correction coding", "spreading", and "interleaving"; Integration of Secure modems using Hopping techniques in Stressed environments; Fault finding for Commercial and Bespoke modems in a System environment.

The candidate will also demonstrate the following skills:

- Experience in following methodical fault finding in a Systems test environment.
- Documentation skills in writing Test Specifications to Company Procedures, daily log entries and Test Reports.

Other Criteria

The candidate will be expected to travel to the UAE for periods of time

Personal Qualities:

- Team Player
- Organised/Methodical approach
- Communicative and drive to achieve targets without continual supervision

Engineers must be capable of working on their own and also be able to liaise with other departments and teams on technical issues.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Contracts are those of an Employment Business.