5G Wireless Test Architect

About Our client

Our client is the world leader in engineering and R&D services. Our client offers its clients a unique value proposition to meet their transformation and innovation challenges. Our client supports its clients, from concept through industrialization, to develop the products and services of tomorrow and has been working for more than 35 years with major players in many sectors: Automotive, Aeronautics, Space, Defense & Naval, Rail, Infrastructure & Transport, Energy, Industrial & Consumer, Life Sciences, Communications, Semiconductor & Electronics, Software & Internet, Finance & Public Sector. Our client has more than 50,000 employees operating in over 30 countries. Our client is a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services. The Group is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its strong 50-year + heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, our client enables organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Our client is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology comes from and through people. Today, it is a multicultural company of 270,000 team members in almost 50 countries. Our client reported 2019 combined revenues of 17 billion. People matter, results count.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the test strategy for 5G O-RAN system based on 3GPP and O-RAN standards and technically lead the system and solution testing team.
  
• Responsible forvalidating and qualifying the end-to-end 5G O-RAN function in Radio and Core networkinvolving sub-functional domains/areas (e.g.Radio validation and conformance, end-to-end attach/detach/mobility/QoS call flows, OAM, Orchestration, Automation, Mobility, etc.) in O-RAN systemfor SA and NSA.
  
• collaborate with System engineers/Program managers, identifies the scope and priority of product Epics to be validated.
  
• Responsible for leading the test execution team in terms of tets execution, debugging and analysis of critical issues, performance metrics
  
• Responsible for defining and design 5G system-solution automation testing framework.
  

Required Qualifications:

• Postgraduatedegree in electrical engineering, computer science/engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
  
• R&D testing experience including various testing tools.
  
• 15+ years of Wireless testing experience including automation using Python, shell
  
• 8+ years of direct experience in LTE/NR system and solution verification and deep technical knowledge of 4G LTE and/or 5G NR RAN
  

Desired Skills:

• Experience with virtualized 3GPP RAN and/or Core technologies
  
• Experience with O-RAN architecture and standards in workgroups- #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
  
• Experience with defining test strategy, team composition, test planning, validating and qualifying the under development LTE/5G solution
  
• Experience with common telecom network management systems and related protocols- HTTP, REST, TCP/IP, SCTP, IP Routing, IP tables etc.
  
• Experience with industry-standard virtualization environments (KVM/Openstack/VMWare) and container architectures (Docker, Kubernetes).
  
• Experience with leading public cloud infrastructure providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform)
  
• Experience with industry standard test automation frameworks in Python in terms of integration and extending it for system specific requirements
  
• Experience in setting of analytics platform for analyzing functional, load, performance results of mobile system using latest technologies like Kibana, Log Stash
  
• Knowledge of ETSI MANO with prior experience integrating virtual software with orchestration solutions is beneficial.
  
• Experience with robot framework and Python scripting language in telecom environment.
  
• Team player, self-starter and highly motivated.
  
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
  
• Strong analytical skills and ability to acquire new knowledge
  

Requirements

• R&D testing experience including various testing tools.
  
• 15+ years of Wireless testing experience including automation using Python, shell
  
• 8+ years of direct experience in LTE/NR system and solution verification and deep technical knowledge of 4G LTE and/or 5G NR RAN
  
• Experience with virtualized 3GPP RAN and/or Core technologies
  
• Experience with O-RAN architecture and standards in workgroups- #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
  
• Experience with defining test strategy, team composition, test planning, validating and qualifying the under development LTE/5G solution
  
• Experience with common telecom network management systems and related protocols- HTTP, REST, TCP/IP, SCTP, IP Routing, IP tables etc.
  
• Experience with industry-standard virtualization environments (KVM/Openstack/VMWare) and container architectures (Docker, Kubernetes).
  
• Experience with leading public cloud infrastructure providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform)
  
• Experience with industry standard test automation frameworks in Python in terms of integration and extending it for system specific requirements
  
• Experience in setting of analytics platform for analyzing functional, load, performance results of mobile system using latest technologies like Kibana, Log Stash
  
• Knowledge of ETSI MANO with prior experience integrating virtual software with orchestration solutions is beneficial.
  
• Experience with robot framework and Python scripting language in telecom environment.
  

Benefits

• Best in the Industry