Software Test Team Lead

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.

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.

• 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 life cycle.
• 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.

• Strong experience in software testing, quality assurance, or verification and validation, ideally within embedded, communications, defence or mission-critical software environments.
• Proven ability to lead testing activities and coordinate the work of a software test team across multiple priorities and releases.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including test design, exploratory testing, regression testing, integration testing, acceptance testing and defect lifecycle management.
• Experience creating and maintaining test plans, test cases, test scripts, test frameworks, test evidence, test reports and release quality assessments.
• Experience working across the full software development life cycle, from requirements review through to final test, release support and post-release defect analysis.
• Practical experience with test management tools, defect tracking systems, source control, CI/CD pipelines and automated test frameworks.
• Ability to communicate quality…