Overview
As an Operational Acceptance Tester, you will take responsibility for ensuring that critical cloud services are operationally ready for production. This role involves collaborating with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Release Management teams to validate the resilience and reliability of systems across complex cloud-based projects. You will be part of a technology consultancy that delivers secure digital services within government and enterprise environments, working primarily in a remote setting.
Responsibilities
- Lead Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) activities, strategies, and test plans.
- Validate operational readiness across AWS-based services.
- Test resilience, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery.
- Verify monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational processes.
- Collaborate with DevOps and Release teams on production readiness.
- Assess security, performance, and non-functional requirements.
- Identify risks, manage defects, and communicate test outcomes.
- Support and mentor other testing professionals.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience in Operational Acceptance Testing.
- Experience testing cloud environments, ideally AWS.
- Understanding of resilience, recovery, monitoring, and release management.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, and test automation.
- Knowledge of Linux, infrastructure, and IT service management.
- Familiarity with Agile and DevOps delivery.
- Confident communication and stakeholder management skills.
- SC security clearance; British citizens only.