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Automation Engineer - Telecom

Job Description 

We are looking for a Telecom Engineer to be an integral part of our developer team. Our team’s mission is to automate the certification and delivery of complex mobility infrastructure platforms and services. Within the team, you will be a contributing member participating in cross-functional development supporting different customers seeking to use our internally developed automation framework called Automated Network Testing (ANT) while meeting the diverse needs of our customers.  

Responsibilities 

• Participate in Sprint Planning and design discussions with the development team to ensure automation is designed and implemented meeting client’s requirements.
• Develop expertise in the Automated Network Testing (ANT) platform and become an advocate for its use in both a lab and production environment.
• Improve productivity for the overall team by proposing tools or processes that optimize our quality and rate of delivery.
• Provide analysis of automation intake request requirements and test details to determine the most appropriate approach in which to perform the required validations.
• Build close collaboration with Network System Engineers to create a detailed test design using ANT and adjacent tools portfolio of mobility traffic simulators, scripting and real device automation.
• Drive for clarity in requirements, test steps and required validations for use during automation development.
• Create End-to-End (E2) test cases and post-validation templates using ANT.
• Create Command-Line-Interface (CLI) test case template health checks using ANT and regular expressions.
• Expand on existing Python validation libraries within ANT for new and emerging use cases.
• Collaborate with platform teams, testers and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot automation, tooling and mobility infrastructure networks.
• Participate in script lifecycle management; development, delivery, deployment, updates, defect management.

Basic Qualifications

• Expert level working experience in creation and maintenance of Azure and Azure DevOps (ADO) concepts including specific experience with:
  • Demonstrated ability to develop ADO Pipelines from the ground up (particularly yaml expressed pipelines)
  • Demonstrated use of az cli commands within ADO Pipelines as a method to interact with Azure Resources.
  • Comprehension of the purpose and limitations of ADO agents
  • ADO Repos and expanding understanding not only to the purpose but more specifically on branching and tagging methods to optimize code stored in repositories to handle the different environments.
• Understanding the capabilities of Azure Keyvault (AKV)
• Use of Azure Container Registry (ACR) to maintain images and charts through tools used within the pipelines to import, tag, and extract artifacts.
• Understanding of Azure Resource Manager (Endpoints and Service Principals)
• Understanding of Bicep and ARM Templates to build Azure Resources with particular emphasis on parameterization.
• Demonstrated use of Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM).
• Ability to articulate concepts, solutions, and standards to members of the project with various levels of skills sets through presentations and/or discussions.
• 7+ Years of experience in LTE/5G core network testing and development.
• Proficient in Python development with 5+ years of experience. 
• 3+ Years of experience working with Regular Expressions (RegEx).
• Hands on experience developing and maintaining automation scripts following Object Oriented Programming principles.
• Good working knowledge of Linux, IP Networks and Wireshark.
• Good Knowledge of LTE/5G Core Network and Call Flows.
• 3+ Experience in K8s, Azure, Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficient with Agile testing methodologies and best practices
• Working knowledge of Robot framework, Selenium, Java script, JSON, YAML files etc. 
• Portfolio on GitHub or other platforms
• Interest in learning new tools and technologies.
• Great communication skills (written and oral) and intercultural communication abilities
• Must have a win as one attitude, to work as a team to accomplish projects on time with quality. 

EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline e.g. Computer Science, or Engineering.

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