Network Test Engineer
3 months contract to start with (INSIDE IR35)
Bradford (2 to 3 days onsite)
Must Have : Hands on technical knowledge & experience of Layer 2 Metro Ethernet networks, Layer 3, preferably Cisco Kit, SDWAN :
Key Skills Required
A highly technical, experienced hands on resource with experience of managing, coordinating, facilitating & executing test plans, defect management and status reporting; primarily for Layer 2 & Layer3 work, SDWAN features.
- assistance with test environment design
- commissioning & installing (kit, software, test environment)
- configuring
- monitoring
- service testing & trouble shooting
- basic networking
Must Have : Management, facilitation & testing :
- coordinating resources for testing (people, kit, etc.)
- managing & executing testing of the service, including SIP trace collection, management & review
- defect investigation & management
- documentation (process updates, test plans, test results, config documents etc.)
- regular status reports as agreed
- good time management skills
Key Experience Required
- Must have : Layer 2 networking experience, eg LAGs, spanning tree, control frame tunnelling, CoS/QoS, TACACs, SNMP, FTP, SSH, NTP, ACLs, layer 2 device configuration & management
- Traffic generators, layer 3 protocols & CIsco IOS, Cisco SDWAN
Role Specifics
- Supporting Document
- Should have : MEF certification, Layer 3 network experience, Ixia traffic generator, Cisco IOX, CIsco IOS XR, Ciena SAOS 8.x.x, SAOS 10.x.x
- experience with Jira for sprint planning, updates, defect management
- experience with Confluence for documentation repository
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