Test Lead
TechNest Talent
Worthing, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 47KJob location
Worthing, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Microsoft Windows
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
JIRA
Azure
Backup Devices
Software Bug Management
Cloud Computing
Linux
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Failover
Linux Servers
Runbook
Strategies of Testing
Virtualization Technology
Data Logging
Performance Testing
System Availability
Test Scripts
VMware
Job description
- Lead the infrastructure test strategy, planning, execution, and reporting.
- Manage infrastructure testing, OAT, ORT, resilience, failover, disaster recovery, and non-functional testing.
- Coordinate testing across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, and operations teams.
- Develop test plans, test scripts, traceability, and test evidence.
- Manage defects and reporting using Jira.
- Validate operational readiness, including backup and recovery, monitoring, logging, security controls, and runbooks.
- Provide regular status updates, risk reporting, and stakeholder communications.
- Drive continuous improvement in testing processes, tooling, and automation.
Technologies:
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- DevOps
- GCP
- JIRA
- Linux
- Security
- VMware
- Windows, We are recruiting an experienced Infrastructure Test Lead to join a major infrastructure transformation programme. We will work across on-premise and cloud environments to ensure solutions are fully validated before production. In this role, we will collaborate closely with Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud, Security, and Operations teams, covering Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT), Operational Readiness Testing (ORT), Infrastructure Testing, and Non-Functional Testing.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading infrastructure testing within large enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux servers, VMware, virtualization, networking, storage, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Experience with Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT), Operational Readiness Testing (ORT), and non-functional testing.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience testing high availability, resilience, backup and recovery, monitoring, and security.
- Experience using Jira for test planning, execution, and defect management.
- Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills.