Testing Specialist- Nutanix technologies, infrastructure operations

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Testing Specialist to lead the planning, coordination, execution, and assurance of infrastructure, disaster recovery, security, and operational readiness testing activities across a complex enterprise environment.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing comprehensive test strategies, challenging vendor-delivered testing, identifying coverage gaps, and ensuring that all infrastructure platforms are validated against functional, operational, resilience, and security requirements.

This role requires strong hands-on expertise in Nutanix technologies, infrastructure operations, disaster recovery testing, and governance, alongside the ability to engage confidently with technical stakeholders, vendors, architects, and programme leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end infrastructure testing strategies, plans, entry and exit criteria, success measures, and traceability matrices.
• Lead testing activities across infrastructure, operational readiness, disaster recovery, security, migration, and resilience workstreams.
• Review, challenge, and validate vendor-produced test plans, ensuring sufficient coverage, evidence, and alignment with programme objectives.
• Identify testing gaps, risks, dependencies, and remediation actions throughout the project life cycle.
• Design and execute complex functional and non-functional test scenarios, including negative testing, failover testing, backup restoration, and operational validation.
• Facilitate defect triage, issue management, and stakeholder reporting during testing cycles.
• Produce clear test evidence, reports, recommendations, and go-live readiness assessments.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, operations, architecture, and vendor teams to ensure successful delivery and operational acceptance.

Technical Skills & Experience

• Nutanix Platform Expertise
• Strong knowledge of Nutanix NC2, Nutanix AOS, and AHV environments.
• Hands-on experience with Prism Central and Prism Element administration.
• Experience planning and validating Life Cycle Management (LCM) upgrades and platform patching activities.
• Strong understanding of virtual machine life cycle management, including:
• VM creation, deployment, startup, shutdown, and decommissioning.
• Snapshot management and recovery validation.
• VM cloning and template deployment.

Networking & Security

• Understanding of VPCs, VLANs, subnets, routing, and east-west connectivity testing.
• Experience validating micro-segmentation controls using Nutanix Flow and familiarity with VMware NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) concepts.
• Knowledge of security controls including:
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID integration.
• Encryption at rest.
• Network security policy testing.
• CyberArk privileged access management.
• Security monitoring through Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.

Disaster Recovery & Resilience

• Strong experience with Nutanix Leap and disaster recovery testing.
• Ability to design and execute:
• Replication validation testing.
• Planned failover and failback exercises.
• Unplanned disaster recovery scenarios.
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) validation.
• Subset and partial application failover testing.
• Experience assessing business resilience and operational continuity requirements.

Operations, Monitoring & Migration

• Experience validating monitoring and alerting capabilities within Prism Central and Prism X-Play.
• Knowledge of Cohesity backup and recovery solutions, including restore testing.
• Experience testing alert forwarding and integrations into enterprise tools such as OpsRamp.
• Experience supporting migration validation activities using Nutanix Move from VMware ESX environments.
• Ability to validate backup restoration and migration outcomes against acceptance criteria.

Testing & Leadership Competencies

• Proven experience leading infrastructure and technical testing within large-scale transformation programmes.
• Strong test governance and assurance capabilities.
• Ability to challenge technical vendors constructively and hold them accountable for quality delivery.
• Experience designing operational readiness tests such as restart sequencing, backup and restore validation, monitoring verification, and alert escalation testing.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical mindset with a focus on risk identification, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.