Electronics Test & Automation Team Leader

It’s an exciting time to come and join the Sepura team. We are seeking an experienced Electronics Test & Automation Team Leader to lead a team responsible for the verification, characterisation, automation and investigation of electronic subsystems and products across TETRA, LTE and future communication technologies.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership position, combining people leadership with practical engineering responsibility. You will lead a team of Baseband and RF Test Engineers delivering verification, characterisation and automated test solutions for Sepura's critical communication products.

You will be responsible for ensuring test coverage, automation strategy, resource planning and technical excellence across the team while actively contributing to complex investigations, test development, automation frameworks and product validation activities.

Working closely with Electronics Design, Systems Engineering, Conformance, Manufacturing Test Engineering, Quality and Project Management, you will ensure products are robustly verified and transitioned successfully into production.

• Define Electronics Verification Strategy for RF and Baseband subsystems.
• Review and approve verification plans, test procedures and test reports.
• Ensure sufficient test coverage against product requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of test methodologies.
• Act as technical authority for Electronics Verification activities.

• Lead and develop a team of test and automation engineers.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews and development planning.
• Support recruitment and onboarding of engineers.
• Manage team utilisation and resource allocation.
• Build technical capability and succession plans within the team.

• Define roadmap for automation growth across RF and Baseband testing.
• Drive development of Python-based automation frameworks.
• Improve test execution efficiency and repeatability.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Test Engineering to maximise re-use of test methods and automation assets.

• Lead verification activities for:
  • RF Subsystems
  • Baseband Subsystems
  • TETRA Products
  • LTE Products
  • Future Radio Technologies
• Support:
  • Characterisation testing
  • Validation testing
  • Regression testing
  • Environmental testing
  • Production readiness testing

• Lead complex root-cause investigations.
• Drive closure of verification defects through Jira.
• Support Design of Experiments (DoE).
• Work closely with Hardware, Firmware and Systems Engineers.
• Present technical findings to project stakeholders and senior management.

Our customer base includes many different industries and markets around the world. Our complete TETRA and LTE solutions have been developed specifically for users in multiple sectors to face their critical communications challenges.

Our critical communications products are adding more and more radio capability integrating Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi and GNSS capability and we expect 5G to be added in the near future. These radios require significant effort to determine whether they meet the performance and quality expectations that our customers rely on. With multiple radios integrated into a handset, there are significant challenges in test coverage which can only be efficiently addressed with improvements in test methods, test coverage and automation, you will be a key contributor in that aspect of growth within the team.

There is no such thing as a typical day here  will be supported by your manager and team, as well as collaborating with other departments across the business, Baseband, Conformance, Production test Engineering, Project Management and the Design Authority office, activities you will be responsible for include:

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