GCP Test Engineer

You may have been working as a Test Engineer Cloud Test Engineer or Platform Test Engineer with experience validating cloud-hosted platforms and services in secure or regulated environments. You are comfortable working across infrastructure integration and quality assurance activities and you understand what it takes to test systems that need to be resilient secure and operationally ready before they go anywhere near production.

You will be embedded with platform engineers architects DevSecOps teams and security specialists helping to ensure that cloud-native solutions operating within secure private cloud environments meet the highest standards of assurance. This is not a checkbox testing role the environments are complex the stakes are high and the quality bar is set accordingly.

You may also get involved with:

• Testing and assurance activities across cloud-native platforms infrastructure deployments and platform configurations running in secure GCP and private cloud environments
• Validating integrations service interactions and platform behaviour under realistic conditions including resilience and failure scenarios
• Contributing to automated testing and continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines
• Supporting integration operational readiness and deployment assurance activities ahead of release
• Defect analysis root cause investigation and feeding findings back into continuous improvement
• Contributing to testing standards tooling decisions and quality engineering approaches across delivery teams
• Supporting compliance audit and accreditation evidence requirements within secure delivery environments

Qualifications :

What we are looking for

• Experience in a Test Engineer Cloud Test Engineer or Platform Test Engineer role with a track record of testing cloud-hosted or cloud-native platforms and services
• Practical experience working within secure regulated or government delivery environments and an understanding of what that means for testing approach tooling constraints and assurance requirements
• Solid understanding of Agile DevOps and DevSecOps delivery practices and how testing fits within them
• Familiarity with GCP or equivalent cloud platforms including how infrastructure platform services and applications interact
• Understanding of Kubernetes containerised platforms and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts such as Terraform enough to test against them meaningfully
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment approaches and how automated testing integrates into them
• Broad coverage across functional integration regression and non-functional testing approaches
• API and service testing experience including the ability to validate service interactions and data integrity
• Ability to analyse defects and quality risks within complex multi-component environments and communicate findings clearly
• Awareness of secure software delivery operational assurance and resilience testing principles
• Based within commuting distance of London and available to work on-site at the client office three days per week
• Resident in the UK for five or more years with no more than 30 days per year out of the UK to meet Security Clearance (SC) eligibility or currently holding SC or above. Willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) is required for this role

Exposure to Google Distributed Cloud or air-gapped private cloud environments would be a significant advantage as would experience with performance resilience or security testing and any Google Cloud or testing-related certifications

Additional Information :

Why Version 1 

At Version 1 we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing professional growth and financial stability. 

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme where employees collectively benefit from a share of our companys profits 
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme 
• Flexible/remote working Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and peoples individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance 
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension Private Healthcare Cover Life Assurance Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme 
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts Bike to Work Fitness classes Mindfulness Workshops Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance enhanced maternity/paternity leave marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies 
• Educational assistance incentivised certifications and accreditations including AWS Microsoft Oracle and Red Hat 
• Reward schemes including Version 1s Annual Excellence Awards & Call-Out platform. 
• Environment Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity inclusion and belonging schemes. 

And many more exciting benefits drop us a note to find out more.   

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer. 

We are committed to building a diverse inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds identities and lived experiences and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity. 

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully respectfully and confidentially. 

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