Responsibilities
- Lead the Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) process, ensuring systems are operationally ready ahead of production deployment.
- Define OAT strategies, test plans, acceptance criteria and supporting documentation.
- Test areas including build verification, monitoring and alerting, backup and restore, resilience and recovery, logging and audit, configuration management and release management.
- Conduct resilience, failover, backup and recovery testing across cloud-based environments.
- Work closely with DevOps, Infrastructure and Release Management teams.
- Validate SLAs, security requirements and disaster recovery processes.
- Identify, document and manage defects through to resolution.
- Produce clear reporting on OAT progress, results and risks.
Experience
- Strong commercial experience in Operational Acceptance Testing/Operational Testing.
- Good understanding of OAT methodologies and operational readiness.
- Experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins and test automation frameworks.
- Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring and IT service management.
- Experience with Linux, databases and network protocols.
- Understanding of OWASP Top 10 security testing.
- Experience working within Agile and DevOps environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Seniority Level:
Not Specified