Staff Engineer Solution Test

Calix India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Calix India is seeking a senior test engineering leader to drive end-to-end testing for customer deployments in a hybrid work model (Bangalore). You will mentor a small team, develop strategies for NMS/EMS automation, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to validate field scenarios.

The role requires 10+ years of telecom testing experience, proficiency with automation tools, and strong communication in English.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with NMS/EMS systems.
• Strong ability to learn quickly and adapt to change.
• Detail-oriented with ability to work independently.
• Proven communication skills and proactive status reporting.
• Experience with Telecom Access Products, GPON/NGPON/XGS-PON technologies.
• Networking protocols and Layer2/3 Ethernet knowledge.
• Experience with SNMP, Netconf UI testing.
• Familiarity with packet capture and traffic generators.

Responsibilities

• Set day-to-day priorities to meet team goals.
• Develop test strategies for end-to-end deployment testing.
• Create and automate test cases for customer deployment scenarios.
• Execute, monitor and report test results.
• Perform regression testing and scalability checks.
• Reproduce field issues and validate resolutions.
• Lead and mentor a small automation team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and 3rd parties.

Skills

NMS/EMS testing

Test automation

CI/CD

Leadership

English communication

Troubleshooting

Network testing

Performance testing

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Wireshark

tcpdump

iperf

Spirent

IXIA

Abacus/Ameritec Bulk Call Generators

Ookla Speed Test

Job description

Calix provides the cloud, software platforms, systems and services required for communications service providers to simplify their businesses, excite their subscribers and grow their value.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Independently set day-to-day work priorities while working to achieve the goals of the team/organization.
• Develop test strategies for end-to-end customer deployment scenario testing
• Understanding test automation principles, common automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright), and how automation fits into a CI/CD pipeline. Ability to read and understand automation reports
• Automate NMS/EMS API and GUI Test cases.
• Good working knowledge of Apache Kafka, MongoDB, React, Meteor
• Working knowledge of network emulators
• Interface with other automation teams to formulate automation test strategies
• Create test cases to validate customer deployment scenarios and overall solution.
• Execute and monitor tests to report system issues and test results.
• Perform regression testing on new software and hardware, scalability tests and evaluate compliance to specifications.
• Reproduce field issues and validate their resolution.
• Familiarity with traffic generators to create real-world traffic streams for video, data, and voice related testing.
• Analyze log files to capture error conditions
• Troubleshoot and debug issues. Clearly describe system-faults in issue tracking products.
• Lead/mentor a small team of junior and senior level test engineers.
• Work with multiple internal cross-functional teams, as well as 3rd parties, to analyze test results and field scenarios.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical knowledge/experience working with NMS/EMS systems is required.
• Excels at learning quickly and adapting to change.
• Must be detail-oriented, be able to work independently and sometimes with limited information.
• Proactively communicate status, issues, and support needs to appropriate manager(s).
• Organized and goal-focused, ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Minimum of 5 years of knowledge and experience with Telecom Access Products specifically GPON/NGPON/XGS-PON technologies as they apply to Fiber-to-the Home, Fiber-to-the-Business, Fiber-to-the-Curb, Fiber-to-the-Desk, etc.
• Networking protocols and technology experience is required related to Layer2/3 Ethernet networks..
• Experience testing user interfaces including, but not limited to, SNMP, Netconf.
• Experience with data communications or telecommunications product testing in one or more of the following areas:
• Experience with packet capture tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, iperf, wireline simulators, traffic generators and other networking test and evaluation tools.
• Experience with end-to-end testing of OLT-ONU(OMCI) interaction and troubleshooting.
• Excellent general troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to articulate problems in detail.
• Excellent verbal/written English communication skills while working with local/remote teams.
• Hands-on experience with performance test methods and tools, e.g., Spirent, IXIA, Abacus/Ameritec Bulk Call Generators, Ookla Speed Test, Iperf, is a good to have.

Location:

India - (Flexible hybrid work model - work from Bangalore office for 20 days in a quarter)