Job Description

Why this job matters

As the Tech Test Specialist, you will focus on Design, implementation, use and enablement of Mobile Core platforms and testing solutions in the BT lab, working closely with the Design, Operations, and labs teams. You will ensure that approaches, tools, and techniques are built into a relevant methodology and continually monitor, optimize, mentor, collaborate and improve testing tools and techniques.

You will also be responsible for providing technical guidance to the other members of the Mobile Core Test team in helping deliver Mobile Core Platforms and solutions to enhance customer experience and meet business requirements of Time, cost, quality, thereby protecting our reputation as a market leader.

What you\'ll be doing

• Be able to utilize a broad knowledge of testing approaches, practices and techniques in order to engage projects, programmes stakeholders, etc., to create the Test Architecture elements of the overall solution design.
• Support Delivery leads, Porgramme Test Managers and Test Managers in achieving their strategic goals for the project/Porgramme/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 Test Automation teams to design and develop the test automation framework as an intrinsic part of the solution design. To drive automation 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. Help define and drive an Environment strategy that caters for live reflective and future releases in the lab.
• Provide technical know-how, documentation, and training to test and other business functions. Train and help learning within the team by technically coaching members of the Mobile core Test team.
• Stay up to speed on process, practice, and technology developments to ensure they are adopted to enhance the solutions applied to technical and business requirements.
• Have proven track record of working with and supporting data driven, support focused teams, with diverse capabilities in a fast moving and challenging technical & business environment.
• 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., CICD, Agile, Waterfall.

The skills you\'ll need to succeed

• Solid understanding of 3GPP mobile telecommunication networks (2G-5G) and likely a specialist in one or several areas
• Able to demonstrate a strong ability to assimilate information and learn new systems quickly.
• Ability to analyze and assess technical and business requirements to define effective & efficient test architecture, including automation and tooling solutions within the Mobile Network domain.

Technical Knowledge
A detailed understanding of Call flows, interfaces and protocols associated with the below is also required.

• 5GSA Architecture and platform knowledge
• (AMF, SMF, UPF, SBA, HTTP2 API Services)
• Evolved Packet Core (3GPP LTE)
• (MME, HSS, SGW, PGW, ePDG etc)
• GSM & UMTS Architectures
• (Cricut switched voice & messaging, MSC, SMSc, SGSN, GGSN, EIR, HLR)
• Authentication, Policy Control & Charging/Billing Mechanisms
• (PCF, OCS, CDR, Radius, AAA, One NDS, HSS, DSR, LBS, EIR, Mobile IP)
• Cloud Architectures & Network Function Virtualization (EMS, VNF, NFVI)
• Monitoring, Tracing & Test Tools like Wireshark, Netscout, Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Ericsson CNOM (Core Network Operations Manager) - preferable
• Automation test frameworks and associated tools like SEGRON, Spirent, Landslide, Jira etc.

Experience you\'d be expected to have

• Must have 10plus years of experience with delivering Mobile technologies and Solutions.
• Hands on Test management and Testing experience.
• Must have experience of translating high level designs into Testing solutions for Lab implementation and test delivery.
• Identifying testing solutions to Technology & Business developments and drive the adoption of new technologies, platforms, and processes in order to provide better quality and delivery methodologies appropriate to diverse service and business requirements.
• 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.

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