Network Test Engineer

Location
- Hybrid Mode
- London Speechmark / Newbury / Birmingham Small Heath / Manchester / Glasgow 1 Year Employment Contract Description - TECHNICAL SCOPE & DOMAIN COVERAGE

Testing services are delivered across the full VBTS UK product and service estate:
Hosting; LAN & WiFi;
Data Centre;
Service Transition; SD-WAN;
Telephony; UC & Unity; MPN & Cloud;
IoT;
Fixed Connectivity;
Mobility;
Cloud & Security.

Test phases in scope:
Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Functional Testing, Non-Functional Testing, Disaster Recovery Testing and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT).

• Deep hands-on telecom/network infrastructure testing: routers, switches, firewalls, Cisco console competence.
• Strong technical understanding across hosting,
  data centre, SD-WAN, LAN/WiFi, UC, mobility, cloud & security and service transition.
• Ability to interpret complex infrastructure designs and translate them into structured, traceable test scenarios.
• Advanced ALM usage:
  coverage modelling, traceability, defect analytics and management reporting.
• Performance and conformance testing:
  RFC 2544, network test equipment, service management toolsets (e.g. Stable Net).

• Minimum 5 years' relevant experience, with demonstrably deeper hands-on telecom/network testing than the Test Engineer band.
• Strong QA and test industry knowledge of standards and methodologies
  .
• Strong defect management, root-cause analysis and test evidence discipline.
• Excellent organizational, coordination and stakeholder management skills, comfortable in customer-facing settings.
• Proficient Excel and strong Microsoft Office, Teams and SharePoint skills.

• Experience in customer-facing or critical infrastructure environments (CNI / National Grid advantageous).
• Test automation experience and AI-assisted test design exposure.
• Experience mentoring or technically leading small test teams.
• ITIL working experience.
• Multi-domain breadth across three or more of the twelve VBTS domains.