Openshift /Kafka Test Engineer – Banking Client
First seen by Alion on Sep 11, 2026. Salt scores C on the Alion truth index.
Duration: 12 months
Rate: 500 - 500 per day
Inside of IR35 - Umbrella needed
Hybrid working
We are looking for a forward thinking, self-motivated Technical Test Engineer to join the team.
The Release & Test Orchestration Squad are a transversal team who support the Tribe with a range of activities across Functional & Non-Functional testing, Test Automation, Environment Management and Release Management. As part of this, the team cover infrastructure and technical projects which required technical analysis and testing.
The role will focus on technical testing on infra projects, contributing to the environment needs of technical/infrastructure projects as well as carrying out hands on test execution. The role will span our transformation program where we are moving from legacy application so to OpenShift/Kafka based micro services and our legacy applications.
What you will be doing: Contribute to Infrastructure projects, define Technical Test requirements and feed into Test strategies
Hands on test execution, both manual and automated testing, reporting progress and status
Contribute to environment infrastructure set up and the creation of supporting documentation
Contribute to the x-platform test environment preparation (build/refresh), ensuring it is progressing according to plan and escalating issues accordingly
Contribute to the environment impact assessment of infrastructure changes e.g. security patches
Provides guidance on ensuring requested environment(s) are correctly setup and ready on time to start the testing stages described in the HLTS
Escalates risks, issues concerns to the Scrum Master as required
Interfaces with relevant stakeholders (Hotline teams, Technical Teams, Business) for environment impact assessment & problem resolution What you will bring: Technology: HP Non-Stop, Linux, UNIX, OpenShift, Kafka, Java, C#, SQL, CICD
Tools: UFT, Azure Dev Ops, Splunk, Cucumber, Selenium
Experience: 5+ years hands on testing, finance industry experience, BDD/TDD, Agile, infrastructure projects experience
Soft Skills: Open minded, forward thinking, strong proven stakeholder management, Engineering mindset *Rates depend on experience and client requirements