Test Lead

TECHNEST TALENT LTD; Worthing; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

TECHNEST TALENT LTD is seeking an Infrastructure Testing Lead to own the testing strategy for complex enterprise environments in the United Kingdom. The role requires planning, executing, and reporting on infrastructure tests, including OAT, ORT, resilience, and disaster recovery.

You will coordinate testing across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, and operations, developing test scripts and maintaining traceability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading Infrastructure Testing in large enterprise environments.
• Strong ability to plan, execute, and report testing activities across multiple teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the infrastructure test strategy, planning, execution, and reporting.
• Manage Infrastructure Testing, OAT, ORT, resilience, failover, disaster recovery, and non-functional testing.
• Coordinate testing across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, and operations teams.
• Develop test plans, test scripts, traceability, and test evidence.
• Manage defects and reporting using Jira.
• Validate operational readiness, including backup and recovery, monitoring, logging, security controls, and runbooks.
• Provide regular status updates, risk reporting, and stakeholder communications.
• Drive continuous improvement in testing processes, tooling, and automation.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Test strategy

Continuous improvement

Tools

Jira

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the infrastructure test strategy, planning, execution, and reporting.


• Manage Infrastructure Testing, OAT, ORT, resilience, failover, disaster recovery, and non-functional testing.


• Coordinate testing across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, and operations teams.


• Develop test plans, test scripts, traceability, and test evidence.


• Manage defects and reporting using Jira.


• Validate operational readiness, including backup and recovery, monitoring, logging, security controls, and runbooks.


• Provide regular status updates, risk reporting, and stakeholder communications.


• Drive continuous improvement in testing processes, tooling, and automation.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience leading Infrastructure Testing within large enterprise environments.


• Strong knowledge of Windows/Linux servers, VMware, virtualization, networking, storage, and enterprise infrastructure.


• Experience with Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT), Operational Readiness Testing (ORT), and Non-Functional Testing.


• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.


• Experience testing high availability, resilience, backup and recovery, monitoring, and security.


• Experience using Jira for test planning, execution, and defect management.


• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills