Defence Cybersecurity Specialist

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Arqit Quantum Inc. Full time
About Arqit Quantum Inc.

Arqit Quantum Inc. is a global cybersecurity company delivering quantum-safe encryption to secure data and communications for enterprises, governments, and critical national infrastructure (CNI). Our advanced symmetric key cryptography offers scalable encryption that is resilient to quantum threats.

We are looking to expand our software team with individuals who are interested in joining a fast-paced, exciting tech scale-up. Our company culture gives you the opportunity to innovate, take ownership, and scale new heights in your career as the company grows.

Your New Role

As a junior QA engineer within the Software Engineering organisation at Arqit Quantum Inc., you'll get the chance to work on an exciting strategic product roadmap on enterprise and consumer cybersecurity products. You'll work on the design review, test and support of software components through the full SDLC using modern cloud architectures, frameworks, tools and languages.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with our stellar team of cyber experts to address security threats for today and the future.
  • Develop ground-breaking cybersecurity focused cloud PaaS and utilise modern distributed cloud technology stacks and your previous experiences to solve novel technical challenges.
  • Maintain and build quality driven engineering culture that helps ship products with confidence.
  • Work with product engineering team to ensure quality of product/feature, assess risk and ensure features ship with the set high quality bar.
  • Create and execute tests for services and applications for public and hybrid/private clouds, cloud APIs, client SDKs, applications and software for a variety of platforms (IoT/mobile/server/appliance/laptop).
  • Help refine our agile development practices, ensuring the team continually delivers superior quality software by focussing on quality-driven software engineering practices.
  • Work with the Product Management team to help refine requirements and workflows, and use your customer focus to ensure world-class UX.
  • Investigate internal or customer related issues, identifying root cause and providing solutions.
Requirements
  • Minimum of 2 years' manual testing experience.
  • Experience with exploratory testing and risk-based testing is essential.
  • Experience in developing high quality test plans, test cases and executing them.
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language.
  • Professional software testing qualification e.g. ISTQB Foundation.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
  • Experience developing/extending automation tools and frameworks is preferred.
  • BSc/MSc/BEng/MEng or equivalent in Computer Science, electronic engineering or related field, or significant commercial experience of developing complex mission-critical enterprise software and services.
  • Ability to work in the UK without restrictions is ESSENTIAL; there may also be a need for UK security clearance in future.

The following are not essential, but are useful to have:

  • Experience working within the cybersecurity industry is a strong plus.
  • Experience of triage, RCA for software issues within a distributed system.
  • Working knowledge of applied cryptography.
  • Exposure to database testing (SQL and NoSQL).
  • Experience working in an Agile SCRUM, or Lean Kanban environment.
  • Experience with hardware security features across different compute and mobile platforms (e.g. TPM, SGX, SME/SEV, Keychain).
  • Working knowledge of testing API layer.


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