Job Description

Why this job matters

In this job, you\'ll be the Technical Test Specialist for Mobile Quality Assurance, responsible for identifying and designing e2e test solutions for our ever evolving technical and business challenges. You will be responsible for identifying solutions through the application of relevant processes and practices, the use of tools and technology and by applying soft skills such as effective communication and mentoring across the team, the wider technology delivery teams and our business partners and stakeholders.

You will focus on design, implementation, use and enablement of testing solutions, working closely with the Programme Test Manager, and design and test teams. You will ensure that approaches, tools and techniques are built into a relevant methodology and continually monitor, optimise, mentor, collaborate and improve our testing tools and techniques.

Test Architects form part of the Architecture family; working closely with other types of Architects across Technology.

What you\'ll be doing

• Utilise a broad knowledge of testing approaches, practices and techniques in order to engage up front in value streams, projects, programmes etc., to define the strategy for testing BT\'s products and services.
• Support Programme Test Managers and Test Managers in achieving their strategic goals for the project / programme / activity by providing technical support to the them and the test delivery teams.
• Monitor the effectiveness of testing methodologies and tools in order to drive improvements through insights gained via analysis at all stages of the e2e delivery lifecycle.
• Identify what testing tools and technologies can be implemented, aligning with those already used across the broader design and development functions and those being developed by our strategic technology partners.
• Work with the Test Service Assurance team to design and develop the test automation framework as an intrinsic part of the solution design. To drive automation first and increase our automation footprint over successive deliveries.
• Create test design patterns for re-use in future solution design settings, including the test requirements for regression testing and in life Quality Assurance.
• Work with the Environment delivery and support teams to ensure Mobile NW and IT environments keep up with testing tools and delivery requirements.
• Provide technical know-how, documentation and training to test and other business functions
• Stay up to speed on process, practice and technology developments to ensure they are brought in to Test and enhance the solutions applied to technical and business requirements.

The skills you\'ll need to succeed

Top 5

• Solid understanding of 3GPP mobile telecommunication networks (2G-5G) with a specialism in Voice
• Able to demonstrate a strong ability to assimilate information and learn new systems quickly
• Ability to analyse and assess technical and business requirements to define effective & efficient test architecture, including automation and tooling solutions within the Mobile Network domain.
• Ability to work with internal and external design and development teams/suppliers to assess and implement new technologies/delivery methodologies to drive continuous improvement and efficiency e.g., CI/CD, Agile, Waterfall.
• Experience in communicating complex technical information effectively across multiple (possibly disparate) teams at a variety of levels

The skills listed below are examples of skills currently used but the ability to pick up new technologies is more important than a particular skill:
Technical Knowledge

• Mobile Network knowledge: 2G/3G/4G/VoLTE & IMS/ 5G NSA (EN-DC), 5G Stand-Alone
• Cloud / Containerisation
• NFVi - Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure
• VNF/CNF - Virtual/Cloud Network Function

Test Automation/ Performance Test Tools

• Segron Automated Testing Framework
• Spirent Landslide
• Spirent Avalanche
• Spirent Velocity
• Spirent CloudSure
• API Testing (e.g. SOAPUI, Postman, RapidAPI, REST-Assured)
• Bumlebee
• Blazemeter
• XCAL
• Channel Emulators/ Fading Simulators
• Viavi TM500 Network Tester
• Viavi TeraVM
• Nokia Customer Specific Testing (CST)
• Ericsson Automated Acceptance testing (AAT)
• Nessus (vulnerability scanning)
• Oracle ATS

CI/CD Tools

• CloudBees
• Jenkins
• Jira
• BMC Remedy
• Nexus Repository
• Snyk
• Nexus IQ
• Git (GitLab)
• Ansible Tower
• Digital AI (XL)
• ELK
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as code/GitOps

Qualifications

• Degree level education
• TOGAF / ITIL and CCNA qualifications desirable
• Relevant industry body memberships

Experience you\'d be expected to have

• Must have experience of identifying testing solutions to Technology & Business developments and drive the adoption of new technologies and processes in order to provide better quality and delivery methodologies appropriate to diverse service and business requirements.
• Must have experience of working with test service partners and tools & systems suppliers.
• Must be able to work collaboratively with internal and external customers, stakeholders, partners to ensure alignment to technical and business requirements.

The skills you\'ll need

Release Testing

Manual/Automation Testing

Test Automation Frameworks

System Integration Testing

Agile Testing

Functional/Non-Functional Testing

Test Planning

Programming/Scripting

Testing Management

Version Control

Test Case Design/Writing

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation & Orchestration

Software Testing

User Acceptance Testing

Test Management

Decision Making

Growth Mindset

Inclusive Leadership

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says \'We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It\'s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.\'

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you\'ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won\'t be alone: we\'ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you\'re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON\'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We\'re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you\'re excited about this role but your past experience doesn\'t align perfectly with every requirement on the , please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.

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