Job Description
Business Overview:
Tata Elxsi works with leading broadcasters, operators and healthcare domain product companies to create solutions for smarter living, engaged entertainment, a digital future driven by IoT, OTT, analytics, artificial intelligence and healthcare solutions thereby enabling new revenue streams and enhanced customer experience.
As growth leaders in the Media & Communications industry, we are helping the worlds best-known MSOs and OEMs right from architecture, design, development to deployment. We bring together technologies that accelerate development and foster innovations in the Embedded, Networking, and Broadcast domains.
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Broadband Engineer to join our Media and Communications BU. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Broadband testing (OpenWRT/RDKB/Prpl), automation, monitoring, and cloud platforms. This role is critical to ensuring the stability, security, and performance of over 1,300 Unix-based servers across production and development environments.
The successful candidate will possess excellent troubleshooting skills, a collaborative mindset, and hands-on experience with scripting, cloud systems, and monitoring tools. The role also includes participating in on-call rotations and engaging with third-party vendors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand Product specifications, network architecture, and customer requirements
- Design test plans, test cases and scenarios for broadband features
- Setup test environments including broadband CPEs, access networks and traffic generators
- Perform functional, performance, interoperability and regression testing
- Validate data throughput, latency, jitter and packet loss under different load conditions
- Verify broadband features across firmware versions and hardware revisions
- Develop and maintain test automation scripts
- Issue analysis and debugging
- Collaborate with various teams to root cause and verify fixes
- Cloud Certification testing
- Reporting and documentation
- Cross functional collaboration
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of software testing experience cross platform - Win, Linux and Mac
- Experience in Broadband testing (stack does not matter - can be Openwrt /RDK-B/ Prpl)
- Wi-Fi & Easy-Mesh Standards - Standards, Band steering, Mesh topology, AP Steering, Multi-AP spec
- Very Good Understanding of TR181 Specification & TR369 Protocol
- Debug tools & Issue Triage
- Experience writing testing documents (STDs/ATPs) and knowledge of various testing methodologies
- Knowledge of automation scripting and a programming language
- Experience with AI testing - an advantage
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, sharing knowledge and improving team processes.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Calm and composed under pressure, especially during incident response.
Optional :
- Experience with both frontend and backend testing of cloud-base services
- Knowledge of GCP cloud computing, kubernetes , MySQL, and REST API
Why Join Us:
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge media domain technologies.
- Collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
Job Classification
Industry: Miscellaneous
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Software Development - Other
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Tata Elxsi
Location(s): Chennai
Keyskills:
Linux
Broadband
Cross Platform
win
Mac
Openwrt
tr181
WiFi