Test Engineer

Bestman Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Bestman Solutions in Greater London is seeking an experienced Technical Test Engineer to support infrastructure and platform projects spanning legacy and containerised environments.

This hands-on role combines technical testing, test automation and environment readiness, working closely with engineering, infrastructure and delivery teams to ensure changes are tested and environments are ready to support successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Hands-on testing experience in technical environments.
• Experience testing infrastructure, platforms or complex environments.
• Familiar with testing and monitoring tools (e.g., UFT, Azure DevOps, Splunk, Cucumber, Selenium).
• Financial services experience in regulated or business-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Define technical testing requirements for infrastructure and platform projects and contribute to test strategies
• Perform hands-on manual and automated testing across complex technology environments
• Support the preparation, build and refresh of test environments
• Assess the impact of infrastructure changes, including security patches and platform updates
• Ensure test environments are correctly configured and ready for planned testing activities
• Contribute to environment infrastructure setup and supporting technical documentation
• Identify and escalate testing, environment and delivery risks and issues
• Work with engineering, infrastructure, application and business teams to resolve issues
• Provide clear reporting on testing progress, issues and readiness

Skills

Hands-on testing

Test engineering

Tools

Linux

UNIX

OpenShift

Kafka

Java

C#

SQL

CI/CD

Job description

We are supporting a financial services organisation undertaking a significant technology modernisation programme across its critical infrastructure and application landscape.

As part of this transformation, the organisation is seeking an experienced Technical Test Engineer to support infrastructure and platform projects spanning both legacy technology and modern containerised, microservices-based environments.

This is a hands-on role combining technical testing, test automation and environment readiness. You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure and delivery teams to ensure complex technology changes are appropriately tested, and environments are ready to support successful delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Define technical testing requirements for infrastructure and platform projects and contribute to test strategies
• Perform hands-on manual and automated testing across complex technology environments
• Support the preparation, build and refresh of test environments
• Assess the impact of infrastructure changes, including security patches and platform updates
• Ensure test environments are correctly configured and ready for planned testing activities
• Contribute to environment infrastructure setup and supporting technical documentation
• Identify and escalat testing, environment and delivery risks and issues
• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, application and business teams to resolve technical and environment-related issues
• Provide clear reporting on testing progress, issues and overall readiness

Requirements

• Hands-on experience within technical testing or test engineering
• Strong experience testing infrastructure, platform or other technically complex environments
• Experience across technologies such as Linux, UNIX, OpenShift, Kafka, Java, C#, SQL and CI/CD
• Familiarity with testing and monitoring tools such as UFT, Azure DevOps, Splunk, Cucumber and Selenium
• Experience with both manual and automated testing
• Good understanding of BDD/TDD and Agile delivery environments
• Experience supporting test environment preparation and infrastructure change
• Financial services experience, ideally within a regulated or business-critical environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and business teams
• Proactive, engineering-led approach to problem-solving