PRINCIPAL ENGINEER-SOFTWARE TEST&RELEASE

Person at this position owns architecture/ design of a specific technology area or a sub-system, formulates new solution and ideas and produces new or original work.
Person demonstrates the ability to justify a stand or decision supported by sound technical knowledge base in a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Person is able to the represent the organization externally in detailed technical discussion with the customer with a high level of authority on technical matters in a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Person leads projects which are of significant organisational profile and makes trade-off decisions to deliver solutions that both meet customers technical requirements and timelines.
Person demonstrates the ability to analyse and interpret complex problems and improve, change or adapt existing methods to solve the problem.

Responsible for ensuring that both functional and non-functional (e.g. performance, scalability, security) requirements will be met or exceeded
Responsible for providing Architecture/ high level design/ test strategy for the existing projects and new proposals for a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Responsible for identification and evaluation of various tools, test languages or test methodologies and choosing the best ones for a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Responsible for participating in Customer interaction for major/critical change requests/new features, moderating the meetings and highlighting impact on schedule and effort.
Responsible for reviewing Design Documents and code, Test coverage and its alignment with technical objectives.
Responsible for leading the specification of complex customer requirements for a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Responsible for leading/ participating in technical reviews to ensure quality parameters are being met.
Responsible for contribution to RFP/Documentation/complete responsibility for proposal relating to growth in existing accounts/effort estimation for new proposals.
Expected to contribute to technical capability development of organisation through subject matter expertise.
Expected to keep self-updated on trends, new developments, tools etc. in ones own area of expertise and proactively share the knowledge.

Engineering graduate, MCA, etc Experience ; > 8 years

"Protocol Testing engineers is one who does the following activity on 2G/3G/LTE/5G technologies;
Modem/UE Protocol Stack Testing
Interoperability testing of the modem with various Network operators and dealing with NEM labs (Ericsson, Nokia, alcatel Lucent)
Ability to understand network scenario (signaling & user plane call flow), develop test plans and test cases, and execute those test cases using an automation framework. Collects the required log and analysis/debug issues being found as part of regression.
Should be proficient in all 3GPP Radio Access Technologies (RAT) with air interface, network signaling and Layer 2, Layer 3 protocols of UE & RAN side, also NAS layer from UE and core network.
Automation using PERL/Python/TTCN scripting languages "

Platforms- Internal and customer specific platforms Linux host

Technology Standard- 3GPP specifications Thorough understanding of the Network vendor tests

Tools-
"QXDM, QCAT, QPST, Prism, Anritsu, keysight Test instrument knowledge,
Test scripting like RTD (for Anritsu) or equivalent Trace/log collection tools, core dump analysis tools, flashing tools "

Languages-
Scripting languages like Shell scripts, TCL scripts, Python, Perl etc.. C, C++, TTCN

Specialization- 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, INTEROP TESTING, VSAT-SATCOM