Job Description :
Position: Software Quality Control Engineer – 3 positions - $60 C2C
Location: Redmond, WA
Duration: 12 Months
Our client, a worldwide leader in business support, operational support and virtualization technology is seeking self-motivated Software Quality Control Engineers with testing experience to join their industry leading 5G delivery team in a First Office Application client lab. We need exceptional Quality Control Engineers - smart, passionate people who believe in simplicity, agility and performance, leveraging the best tools for the job. Previous telecom core network quality control and testing experience is required, and previous Microservices and Kubernetes container orchestration experience is highly desired.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Integration testing in pre-production environment.
Creating test suites
Creating test procedures,
Writing shell/python scripts for ASR, Jmeter scripts for Simulap,
Functional testing
Creating and maintain test suites based on product documentation,
Running integration tests with 3rd-party vendor systems,
Documenting and saving test results, including test progress and status, test execution logs, application and network traces.
Required Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge of 3GPP standards and RFCs for 2G/3G/4G mobile core networks.
Experience of working with mobile core network products: HLR, HSS, AuC, EIR, etc.
Knowledge of typical 2G/3G/4G message flows for subscriber authentication, mobility and charging procedures.
5G NF knowledge is very welcome: AUSF, UDM, 5G-EIR, UDR, UDSF, NEF, CHF, message flows for network authentication, mobility and charging procedures.
Experience in integration application testing:
Creating and maintain test suites based on product documentation,
Running integration tests with 3rd-party vendor systems,
Documenting and saving test results, including test progress and status, test execution logs, application and network traces.
Knowledge of different types of testing: functional, integration, interoperability, sanity, installation, stress/volume/load, reliability, destructive/recovery, usability, compliance, etc.
Experience in application test automation. Apache Jmeter experience is welcome.
Strong *nix scripting skills. Additional scripting/programming language knowledge is welcome: Python, Java, etc.
Experience in application deployment, including production deployments, configuration and acceptance testing.
Experience of working in Virtualized environments like Openstack/KVM, VMWare/vSphere. Openstack administration experience is welcome.
Experience of working with Openstack and general IT automation engines: Heat Templates, Cloud-Init, Ansible, Helm Charts.
Linux system administration skills (RHEL, CentOS): OS installation, network/disk configuration, upgrade. Linux system performance tuning and testing experience is welcome.
Experience of working with HTTP/2, TLS/SSL, RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, XML-RPC.
Experience of deploying and running microservice applications as Docker containers managed by Kubernetes.
Strong analytical and documenting skills and experience in creating method of procedure (MOP) documents and ATP suites.
Good communication and presentation skills, experience of Vendor-Customer interaction is welcome.