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I copy/pasted your code snippet into a new bash script, changed the username, password, testfile, and FTP server, then it ran just fine.

Try changing the first line to:
#!/bin/bash -xv

You can...

Just break your FTP batch file into steps and run them one by one. Try:

$ ftp <ipaddress>

I suspect you're getting blocked... maybe bad IP or firewall.

If you get a login prompt, then...

Escape your double-quotes, or just avoid wrapping double-quotes around your "echo" command ... they technically aren't required.

Shell sees you opening your quote after the echo, then assumes you...

man stat

You can use either "stat -c %y" for a better format (might still need some parsing, but closer to what you want), or you may even want to store the time in epoch time, using "stat -c %Y"...

'mv' (as well as almost every UNIX command or script) will return 0 if it succeeds, which should end up in the shell variable "$?".

You can also look into using the "||" operand to execute...

I recently wrote a script to simulate some web transactions recently (not too different than yours), I had good luck following this tip from curl's website...