Job Title: Network Test Engineer - Bradford two days per week. Location: Bradford (Hybrid) Salary/Rate: Up to £425 per day (Inside IR35) Start Date: November / December 2025 Job Type: 3 month contract - with scope to extend long term. Company Introduction: We are recruiting for a Network Test Engineer with extensive experience in Metro Ethernet Networks (Layer 2 & Layer 3) & testing tools such as Byteblower / Wireshark to join our global client in the telecommunications sector. Job Responsibilities/Objectives: A highly technical, experienced hands-on resource with experience of managing, coordinating, facilitating & executing test plans, defect management and status reporting; primarily for Layer2 & Layer 3 testing work. assistance with test environment design, test strategy and test planning commissioning & installing (kit, software, test environment) configuring monitoring service testing & trouble shooting basic networking Required Skills/Experience: Management, facilitation manual & automation testing : coordinating resources for testing (people, kit, etc.) defect investigation & management documentation (process updates, test plans, test results, config documents etc.) regular status reports as agreed experience with test automation frameworks with experience in scripting languages bash, python etc Experience with test tools like Ixia, Byteblower, Wireshark etc Professional, self-motivated, self-driven, customer focused, delivery-orientated, flexible with ability & capacity to learn (new vendor kit), Layer 2 networking experience, eg LAGs, spanning tree, control frame tunnelling, CoS/QoS, TACACs, SNMP, FTP, SSH, NTP, ACLs, layer 2 device configuration & management, Traffic generators, layer 3 protocols, Cisco IOS, Versa/Cisco/Meraki SDWAN Desirable Skills/Experience: Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client: MEF certification, Layer 3 network experience, Ixia traffic generator, Cisco IOX, Cisco IOS XR, Ciena SAOS 8.x.x, SAOS 10.x.x