Architect

Cognizant; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Architect with 8–12 years of experience in designing and optimizing wifi cable modem and customer premise equipment solutions for a multinational organization. The architect will define scalable architectures for hybrid work environments while ensuring robust performance, reliability, and security for residential and enterprise connectivity services.

The role involves leading a team of embedded and test engineers, coordinating with firmware, hardware, cloud, mobile app

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of design and optimization experience in wifi/CPE solutions.
• Experience in defining scalable architectures for hybrid work environments.
• Strong focus on performance, reliability and security.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall test strategy for firmware and WiFi features
• Lead and mentor a team of embedded and test engineers providing technical guidance and review.
• Collaborate with firmware hardware cloud mobile app and product teams to ensure quality at every stage of development.
• Drive test planning estimation risk analysis and defect triage for multiple product releases.
• Plan and execute functional integration regression and system testing
• Validate WiFi device - Models such as WiFi 5 6 & 7
• Network Switch Testing and Configurations
• WiFi Feature validations such as RADIUS Sizing of GREs + #Auth sessions + AAA Load + QoS catalog + DC mapping Failovers SCPS Adaptation
• Drive test automation using Python scripting frameworks and CI pipelines.
• Experience with WIFI Testing Chambers
• Use and guide the team on debugging tools: Analyzers Wireshark.
• Define and track quality metrics (defect leakage pass rate stability KPIs).

Skills

Test strategy

Team mentoring

Python scripting

CI pipelines

WiFi testing

Networking

Tools

Wireshark

Test Analyzers

WiFi Chambers

Job description

Job Summary

Architect role requiring eight to twelve years of experience in design and optimization of wifi cable modem and customer premise equipment solutions for a multinational organization. The architect will define scalable architectures for hybrid work environments while ensuring robust performance reliability and security for residential and enterprise connectivity services.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall test strategy for firmware and WiFi features
• Lead and mentor a team of embedded and test engineers providing technical guidance and review.
• Collaborate with firmware hardware cloud mobile app and product teams to ensure quality at every stage of development.
• Drive test planning estimation risk analysis and defect triage for multiple product releases.
• Plan and execute functional integration regression and system testing
• Validate WiFi device - Models such as WiFi 5 6 & 7
• Network Switch Testing and Configurations
• WiFi Feature validations such as RADIUS Sizing of GREs + #Auth sessions + AAA Load + QoS catalog + DC mapping Failovers SCPS Adaptation
• Drive test automation using Python scripting frameworks and CI pipelines.
• Experience with WIFI Testing Chambers
• Use and guide the team on debugging tools: Analyzers Wireshark.
• Define and track quality metrics (defect leakage pass rate stability KPIs).