Quality Engineer

Experis; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology staffing firm seeks a QAT Engineer to ensure operational readiness before systems go live. This remote role requires occasional travel to London. The candidate should have experience or exposure to operational readiness testing, with a familiarity with AWS. Responsibilities include designing and supporting Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) activities, and collaborating with various teams to resolve defects. Ideal for those at the start of their testing career looking to build broad technical experience.

Qualifications

• Strong exposure to testing or quality assurance.
• Basic experience with Linux/system administration.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and support OAT activities.
• Validate operational readiness for services.
• Work to resolve defects with delivery teams.
• Support testing of AWS-hosted applications.

Skills

Experience in operational readiness testing

Understanding of service management environments

Familiarity with AWS

Knowledge of monitoring tools

Basic Linux/system administration

Collaboration across teams

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

New Relic

Elastic Stack (ELK)

Ansible

Job description

Role: QAT Engineer

Location: Remote, occasional travel to London may be required as and when requested by the project.

Duration: 12 Months

Day rate: £395 Umbrella Only

Clearance: 5 years unbroken UK residency required. Existing/transferrable clearance is preferred, but not essential.

About the Role

We're looking for a Junior Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) Quality Engineer to join our technology delivery team. This role focuses on ensuring systems and services are operationally ready before going live, working closely with delivery, operations, and service management teams.

This is a great opportunity for náà early in their testing or quality engineering career who enjoys working across testing, operations, and infrastructure, and who is keen to build broad technical experience in a live service environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and support Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) activities for new and changed services
• Validate operational readiness, including monitoring, supportability, and service management requirements
• Work closely with service management, operations, and delivery teams to resolve defects and risks
• Support testing of AWS-hosted applications and services
• Verify monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational tooling is in place and fit for purpose
• Assist with test documentation, reporting, and handover into operations
• Contribute to continuous improvement of OAT processes and standards

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience or strong exposure to testing or quality assurance, ideally within OAT, SAT, or operational readiness testing
• Understanding of service management and operational environments
• Familiarity with AWS or cloud-hosted applications
• Experience or working knowledge of monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic, or Elastic Stack (ELK)
• Basic experience with Linux/system administration, Bash scripting, or automation tools such as Ansible
• Ability to work offers collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams

Desirable Skills

• Exposure to telecommunications technologies such as 4G, 5G, or LTE
• Experience working in IT operations, production support, or service transition
• Awareness of ITIL or service management practices