Cisco Test Engineer

6 Month Contract

Newbury (Hybrid)

£300/day (Outside IR35)

Cisco Test Engineer needed for a 6 Month Contract in Newbury (Hybrid). Start ASAP in June 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.

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.

Key experience + tasks will include:

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

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

Creating test scripts from Test Plans and Low Level Designs for Network infrastructure -eg- CISCO equipment, Switches, Routers, Firewalls.

Importing test cases, test case management, collecting test execution evidence, reporting execution and defect management in ALM.

Using StableNet Network and Service Management tools.

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

Telecoms sector experience strongly preferred