Job Summary

• Person at this position is able to apply broad knowledge of their technical discipline or advanced knowledge of specific technical practices.
• Person identifies problems in existing systems and modifies it by following defined work procedures.
• Operationally oriented role responsible for achieving day to day defined tasks.
• Works under close supervision of Team Lead/ Project Manager.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for design, coding, testing, bug fixing, documentation and technical support in the assigned area. Responsible for on time delivery while adhering to quality and productivity goals.
• Responsible for adhering to guidelines and checklists for all deliverable reviews, sending status report to team lead and following relevant organizational processes.
• Expected to enhance technical capabilities by attending trainings, self-study and periodic technical assessments. 

Education and Experience Required

Engineering graduate, MCA, etc
Experience: 0-2 years

Competencies Description

"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