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. StableNet).

MANDATORY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE -

• 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.

DESIRABLE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 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.

CERTIFICATIONS & QUALIFICATIONS