Job Description

Job Title: Network Test Engineer
Location: Bradford preferred (Happy to consider candidates nationwide)
Day rate: Up to 425 per day (Inside IR35)
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 with lab testing, Voice, Layer 2 & Layer 3 to join our global client in the telecommunications sector.
If local to Bradford candidates will be expected to go on site 2 x per week. Candidates from further afield required on site less frequently..
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 Layer 2 & 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:

• Lab testing experience
• Voice
• 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

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

Skills Required