Software Test Team Lead

Who we are:

DTC, a Codan Company, is a leading provider of advanced communications technology supporting defence, security, and mission-critical operations worldwide. As part of Codan Limited, an international technology company with a long-standing reputation for delivering trusted communications solutions, DTC combines specialist engineering expertise with global resources to develop and support products that perform in the world's most demanding operational environments.

Serving customers across Europe and internationally, DTC delivers secure communications capabilities that enable defence forces, government agencies, public safety organisations, and critical infrastructure operators to achieve reliable, resilient, and effective communications. Our solutions are designed to meet the evolving requirements of modern operations, where performance, interoperability, and operational readiness are essential.

Innovation, technical excellence, and customer partnership are central to our approach. We work closely with government, defence, and industry partners to develop technologies that address emerging operational challenges while meeting rigorous quality, security, and regulatory standards.

As part of the Codan Group, employees benefit from the strength of a global organisation while contributing within a focused, agile business dedicated to delivering advanced communications solutions. We are committed to fostering a professional environment that values expertise, collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement.

Joining DTC offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced professionals on technologies that support national security, defence modernisation, and critical communications capabilities throughout Europe and around the world. We seek individuals who are motivated by technical excellence, innovation, and the opportunity to contribute to solutions that have a meaningful operational impact.

Role Summary

The Software Test Team Lead is responsible for leading a team of software test engineers to ensure that DTC’s software and embedded communications products meet agreed quality, reliability, performance, and operational standards. This is a hands-on test leadership role combining test strategy, technical test expertise, team mentoring, delivery planning, defect management, and close collaboration with software engineering, systems engineering, product, operations, and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and mentor a team of software test engineers, helping them develop technical capability, product knowledge, and effective test practices.

• Own the planning, coordination, and execution of software testing activities across features, releases, products, and technical initiatives.

• Define and maintain test strategies, test plans, test cases, test environments, and test completion criteria aligned with product requirements and engineering priorities.

• Work closely with software engineering, systems engineering, product management, operations, and project stakeholders to understand requirements, risks, schedules, and acceptance criteria.

• Ensure appropriate testing coverage across functional, integration, regression, performance, reliability, usability, security, and system-level test activities where applicable.

• Promote the effective use of automated testing, test tooling, CI/CD integration, defect tracking, and test reporting to improve quality and delivery confidence.

• Review requirements, designs, user stories, test documentation, and release plans to identify risks, gaps, ambiguities, and opportunities for early defect prevention.

• Manage defect triage, root cause analysis, retesting, regression testing, and quality risk reporting throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Provide clear visibility of test progress, product quality, defect trends, risks, blockers, and readiness for release.

• Drive continuous improvement in testing processes, quality standards, test environments, tools, and team ways of working.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in software testing, quality assurance, or verification and validation, ideally within embedded,…