Wi-Fi Architect

PDSSOFT INC.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PDSSOFT INC. is seeking a quality assurance tester to perform exploratory testing of Wi‑Fi features across CPE devices, including gateways, routers, and extenders.

The role emphasizes hands‑on verification of SSID management, security modes, and overall reliability. You'll collaborate with developers, architects, and product teams to share findings, reproduce customer‑reported issues, and log high-quality defects with detailed observations, logs, and reproduction steps.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Wi‑Fi fundamentals including modern standards.
• Hands-on testing experience with broadband gateways, routers, and mesh/extenders.

Responsibilities

• Perform exploratory testing of Wi‑Fi features across CPE devices (gateways, routers, extenders).
• Validate SSID creation and management.
• Assess security modes (WPA2/WPA3, WPS) and related configurations.
• Evaluate band steering, client steering, mesh behavior, roaming and handoff.
• Test interference, channel congestion, and environmental variations.
• Identify edge cases, race conditions, and intermittent issues via investigation.
• Collaborate with developers, architects and product teams to share findings and reproduce issues.
• Log high-quality defects with detailed observations, logs, and reproduction steps.
• Analyze logs, packet captures, and system traces for issue triage.

Skills

Wi-Fi fundamentals

802.11 standards

Broadband gateways/routers

Job description

• Perform exploratory testing of Wi Fi features across CPE devices (Gateways, Routers, Extenders).
• Validate Wi Fi functionality including:
• SSID creation and management
• Security modes (WPA2/WPA3, WPS)
• Band steering, client steering, mesh behavior
• Roaming, handoff, and multi AP scenarios
• Interference, channel congestion, and environmental variations
• Identify edge cases, race conditions, and intermittent issues through investigative testing.
• Perform performance and stability validation:
• Throughput, latency, packet loss
• Long duration soak and stress testing
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, and product teams to:
• Share exploratory findings
• Reproduce complex customer reported issues
• Suggest test ideas based on system design
• Execute limited scripted/regression testing, with primary focus on unscripted exploratory testing
• Log high quality defects with detailed observations, logs, and reproduction steps
• Analyze logs, packet captures, and system traces for issue triags

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of Wi Fi fundamentals:
• 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax (Wi Fi 4/5/6)
• Hands on testing experiencewith:
• Broadband gateways, routers, mesh/extenders