Job Title: Senior IP Test Engineer

Location: Slough & Remote

Job Type: Contract

Duration: 3 months initially

Start Date: May 2024

Pay Rate: TBC

Flint UK Technology Services is looking for a Senior IP Test Engineer to join one of our telecoms clients on a minimum 3-month contract basis. The role is based in Slough - Buckingham Avenue and will require the successful candidate to travel to the office a minimum of 2 days per week.

About You

• Excellent Knowledge of Juniper Routers essential
• Excellent knowledge of IP/MPLS Core network testing & troubleshooting practices
• Excellent IP skills (ability to troubleshoot the BGP/ISIS routing and other protocols around the MPLS Core estate)
• Have excellent technical people co-ordination, co-operation, management skills & work independently.
• Demonstrate tenacity and a proactive attitude to all the tasks defined.
• Be able to progress tasks concurrently to deliver in the allotted time.
• Provide regular updates to the Project and Transport Test team principal engineers.
• Respond to concerns raised by the Transport Test team principal engineers.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly learn the existing MPLS Core connection/solution (including entwined IP Routers)
• Produce Test Plan including Test Case listing from the provided template (and old examples) and gain sign off from stakeholder though programme and project team.
• Gather existing Test Cases in Jira system.
• Review and validate the Test Cases in Jira system, removing duplication and creating more tests cases where required and agreed.
• Perform MoSCoW test case prioritisation to ensure test cycle is achievable in the time constraints.
• Review overarching MoPs/Imp Plans from the design teams and ensure all the MoPs work in unison to affect the migration in TestBed.
• Execute Baseline test cases.
• Execute Migration MoP Test cases including rollback.
• feedback on any technical matters to the design teams to improve the solution.
• Execute Regression suite of test cases once the solution is successfully implemented.
• Produce and manage defects/issue tracker and seek resolutions.
• Produce Test Exit Report with change risk assessment and gain sign-off.

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV through and someone from the Strategic Resourcing team will review your application and contact you.