Network Test Engineer

Network Test Engineer

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3-6 Month Contract

Newbury (Hybrid)

£(Apply online only)/day (Outside IR35)

CISCO Network Test Engineer needed for a 3-6 Month Contract in Newbury. Hybrid working – typically 1 day/week working in the office + 4 days/week working remotely (WFH). Occasional travel to other sites including: Farnborough, Bath, Oxford, Warwick + Birmingham.Start ASAP in August 2025.

Must have specific experience of testing Telecoms Network Infrastructure including: CISCO Switches, Routers, Firewalls, RFC 2544 testing + Network Connectivity testing.

A chance to work with a global IT services consultancy for a large-scale Network Infrastructure programme for an end-client in the Telecoms domain.

Key experience + tasks will include:

Test Engineer needed to support a Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) network connectivity transformation programme.

Creating test scripts from Test Plans and Low-Level Designs for Network infrastructure -e.g- Switches, Routers, Firewalls.

Cisco Switch / Router console commands, setting up network test equipment for RFC 2544 testing + handling fibre optic cabling.

ALM Test case management, Defect Management, Reporting

ALM testing (Application Lifecycle Management) testing. Importing test cases, test case management, collecting test execution evidence, reporting execution and defect management in ALM.

Test phases purposes: Unit, System Integration, Functional, Non-Functional, Disaster recovery, Operation Acceptance testing – OAT)

Using StableNet Network and Service Management tools.

Interpreting Network infrastructure design from HLD / LLD + understanding Data Centre operating procedures.

Telecoms / National Network Infrastructure domain / Utility Gas & Electric experience preferred