Network Test Engineer
6 days ago
Bradford
Job Title: Network Test Engineer - Bradford two days per week. Location: Bradford (Hybrid) Day rate: Up to £425 per day Start Date: November / December 2025 Job Type: 3 month contract - with scope to extend long term. Company Introduction: We are recruiting for a Network Test Engineer with extensive experience in Metro Ethernet Networks (Layer 2 & Layer 3) & testing tools such as Byteblower / Wireshark to join our global client in the telecommunications sector. Job Responsibilities/Objectives: A highly technical, experienced hands-on resource with experience of managing, coordinating, facilitating & executing test plans, defect management and status reporting; primarily for Layer2 & Layer 3 testing work. • Assistance with test environment design, test strategy and test planning, • Commissioning & installing (kit, software, test environment), • Configuring, • Monitoring, • Service testing & trouble shooting, • Basic networking Required Skills/Experience: • Management, facilitation manual & automation testing :, • Coordinating resources for testing (people, kit, etc.), • Defect investigation & management, • Documentation (process updates, test plans, test results, config documents etc.), • Regular status reports as agreed, • Experience with test automation frameworks with experience in scripting languages bash, python etc, • Experience with test tools like Ixia, Byteblower, Wireshark etc, • Professional, self-motivated, self-driven, customer focused, delivery-orientated, flexible with ability & capacity to learn (new vendor kit),, • 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, Versa/Cisco/Meraki SDWAN Desirable Skills/Experience: Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client: • MEF certification, Layer 3 network experience, Ixia traffic generator, Cisco IOX, Cisco IOS XR, Ciena SAOS 8.x.x, SAOS 10.x.x Sound like a match? Feel free to apply!