Intact Insurance Testing Specialist
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£400 Per day
Inside
Onsite
London
Summary: The Testing Specialist role at Intact Insurance involves leading testing and quality assurance efforts for infrastructure, disaster recovery, security, and operations. The position requires strong technical skills in Nutanix systems and networking, along with the ability to define test strategies and plans. The role is based in London and requires a significant on-site presence. The contract runs until November 2026, with a competitive daily rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead testing and quality assurance for infrastructure, disaster recovery, security, and operations.
- Define and own test plans, entry/exit criteria, and traceability.
- Review and critique vendor test coverage, identifying gaps and insisting on evidence.
- Design disaster recovery, negative, and operational readiness tests.
- Communicate effectively with vendors and stakeholders to facilitate technical discussions.
Key Skills:
- Strong knowledge of Nutanix NC2/AOS/AHV, including Prism Central/Element and LCM upgrades.
- Solid understanding of VM lifecycle management.
- Networking skills, including VPCs, VLANs, and micro-segmentation.
- Experience with disaster recovery and resilience strategies.
- Knowledge of security practices, including RBAC and encryption.
- Experience with Ops tooling and migration processes.
- Leadership skills in test strategy and planning.
- Strong vendor governance and communication skills.
Salary (Rate): £400/day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Role Title: Testing Specialist
Start Date: Early May
End Date: 30th November2026
Rate: £435
Location: London
N# of Days onsite P/W: 3
N# of Seats Available: 1
JD - Infrastructure / Technical skills
- Strong Nutanix NC2 / AOS / AHV knowledge (Prism Central/Element, LCM upgrades)
- Solid VM lifecycle understanding (create/start/stop/delete, snapshot, clone, templates)
- Networking: VPCs, VLANs/subnets, east-west connectivity, micro?segmentation (Nutanix Flow, NSX DFW concepts)
- DR & resilience: Nutanix Leap, replication, planned/unplanned failover, failback, RPO/RTO, subset failover
- Security: RBAC, AD/Entra ID integration, encryption at rest, network security policies, CyberArk, SIEM (Sentinel/Defender)
- Ops tooling: monitoring and alerting in Prism/x?play, Cohesity backups, alert forwarding into tools like OpsRamp
- Migration: Nutanix Move from ESX, restore from backup
Testing / QA leadership skills
- Test strategy and planning for infra/DR/security/ops
- Ability to define/own test plans, entry/exit criteria, and traceability
- Strong vendor governance: review/critique vendor test coverage, identify gaps, insist on evidence
- Experience designing DR, negative, and operational readiness tests (restart sequencing, backup/restore, alerts)
- Clear communication and challenge skills to have meaningful, technical conversations with vendors and stakeholders