Network Automation Engineering Specialist
- Alp Consulting
- 8 - 11 years
- Bengaluru
- 10 months ago
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Job Description
Why this job matters
Our mobile network is critical to the success of our business and ensuring that it is well tested is a critical function enabling us to remain number 1 in the UK. This role puts you in the heart of a new and growing team, based in Bangalore, working closely with colleagues in the UK to validate changes and new product offerings as they are delivered. The transformation of our working practices to include automation in all aspects of our business is key to our ability to respond and succeed. Our customers and stakeholders rely on us to keep up with the pace of change across the mobile industry. Our business relies on us to keep up with the rate of delivery from our suppliers. Our shareholders rely on us to continually improve our ability to deliver business value quickly, effectively and accurately. This role will put you at the heart of delivering on the future strategy of our business.
Specific Job Requirements
Working closely with your colleagues across the QA team, you will be part of enabling our ambitions to continually improve our capabilities,This role is in the heart of the automation team, bringing speed, reliability and greater coverage to the current methods of working; you will be at the forefront of new technology coming in to our core business.
What youll be doing
- Coordinates a diverse team and creates the initial test schedule to deliver all aspects of testing to time, budget and quality targets, holding accountability for producing outlines of solutions and defining depth of testing required.
- Plans and oversees full lifecycle integration testing to support complex projects.
- Monitors day to day activities to ensure all objectives are achieved, reviewing reports and statistics to unblock any issues.
- Provides technical expertise within their area and shares knowledge with team to scope and deliver testing requirements.
- Interacts with customers and senior internal stakeholders including project and programme managers to gather insight and feedback to inform testing requirements and approach.
Capabilities required for the job
- Improvement focus - You coach and empower teams to anticipate and analyse obstacles in work processes. You support them to develop solutions and implement ways to improve processes and make things more efficient.
- Technology excellence - You build and apply insight about emerging technology to develop and deliver new digital solutions. You break complex information down into understandable language.
- Issue management - You conduct a deep review of data and issues to quickly reveal the root cause. You recommend short and long-term solutions to complex problems and follow through to make sure we solve them.
- Testing and quality assurance - You source information and monitor the performance and quality of processes, infrastructure, products and services.
- Be agile - You identify opportunities to use collaborative approaches and continuous improvement. You contribute to projects as a subject matter expert or content owner.
- Product and service knowledge - You demonstrate subject matter expertise in complex, technical infrastructure, products and services. You develop bespoke solutions to meet short, medium and long-term customer needs.
Experience you would be expected to have
- Good foundational understanding of mobile networks and the key elements of core network components; Detailed knowledge in one or more an advantage
- Be an experienced software developer with a solid understanding of the importance of test driven development, shared code ownership, pairing, agile principles, and the management of technical debt. Python essential.
- Good foundational understanding of general network operation essential; Detailed understanding of network protocols used in mobile space an advantage. Knowledge of expected message sequences constituting successful and failing call flows across different generations of mobile cores an advantage
- Relentless drive to bring transformation through automation across the end to end delivery flow; Detailed knowledge and experience using one or more automation tools/frameworks such as Perfecto, Headspin, Robot, Selenium or equivalents highly desirable. Software and/or script development experience highly desirable
- Experience working with traditional operations teams and integrating them into a DevOps culture
- Experience using GIT and Nexus essential including a good understanding of how we can treat all artefacts as code (config, infrastructure, etc.)
- Able to build great relationships both inside and outside the teams, leveraging those relationships to ensure the smooth flow of the right information
- Able to make decisions in ambiguous situations using incomplete information or differing opinions
- Actively participate in strategy setting sessions
- Understanding of different communication and working styles, and how to adapt own style to that of others. Experience working with and leading teams located in different geographical regions desirable.
- Has broad knowledge of industry tools and practices including agile methodologies and DevOps engineering approaches
- Able to debug, diagnose and arrive at RCAs, deriving information from designs and/or experimentation in order to assist in the triage and resolution of test defects essential
- Good understanding of cloud configuration and deployment with experience working with Openstack and kubernetes highly desirable.
Job Classification
Industry: Telecom / ISPFunctional Area:
Role Category: Quality Assurance and Testing
Role: Quality Assurance and Testing
Employement Type: Full time
Education
Under Graduation: B.Tech/B.E. in Any SpecializationPost Graduation: MBA/PGDM in Finance
Doctorate: Any Doctorate
Contact Details:
Company: lp Consulting LimitedLocation(s): Bengaluru
Keyskills: tdd devops agile principles
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