Skylo Technologies is hiring a Senior System Test Engineer to join our team to implement Skylo's vision of building out a carrier-grade Satellite IOT network. This role will be highly cross-functional, working across the network engineering, wireless systems, and network operations teams. This is a terrific opportunity for someone who is interested to stretch themselves in their network domain, and see their work have immediate global impact in the wireless industry.
Responsibilities:
- Plan, execute, and document tests to verify and validate Skylo NTN system behavior and performance, expose issues, and identify root causes
- Work closely with the device, wireless systems, RAN, core and data mobility platform engineering teams and to execute system acceptance testing that will verify end-to-end functionality of the Skylo Non-terrestrial Networking (NTN) system
- Provide periodic feedback to engineering team and document all the aspects of different phases of testing and results including system release versions, demo, lab, PoC, production network deployments
- Test complex hardware/software systems that push the frontier in hardware design, software design, and system integration. Conduct hands-on test preparation in the lab and on the field execution, as well as write complete test plans, procedures, and reports that improve Skylo products & network services
- Analyze test results and sign-off that they are passing, or troubleshoot/identify issue and drive it all the way to bug closure
Requirements:
- Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience with a variety of testing and test automation tools
- Technical understanding of telecommunications systems, especially cellular systems (LTE eNB, EPC, and associated LTE/NB-IoT protocols), ability to learn quickly and establish credibility with engineers
- Ability to script and/or program in either Bash, Python, Go, Ruby on a Unix/Linux or equivalent program and to execute automation jobs using Jenkins, Hands-on experience using JIRA & Confluence is desirable
- Ability to roll up your sleeves and get things done - you are not afraid to get your hands dirty
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field, CS/EE background is preferred
- 5-7 years of industry experience in System Verification, Software Test Automation, Quality Assurance or similar position
- Proven track record of thriving in a fast-paced, rapidly growing and evolving startup/scaleup environment
- Highly collaborative, with superior communication and leadership skills, comfortable building and working with teams from diverse backgrounds
