Wi-Fi Lab Engineer

TeleWorld Solutions Inc

  • Denver, CO
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 29 days ago
Overview:TeleWorld Solutions is seeking a Wi-Fi Lab Engineer to join our team! As a Wi-Fi Lab Engineer, you will design, automate, and maintain these multi-vendor testbeds, validate firmware and features across Wi-Fi 6/6E/7, and own the “go / no-go” gate that protects our customers’ production networks. The role blends RF expertise, network programmability, and disciplined QA practices—perfect for engineers who enjoy building repeatable experiments and digging deep into packets, logs, and spectrum traces.TeleWorld Solutions is a strategic wireless engineering and consulting firm offering network operators, OEMs and tower companies’ turnkey design, optimization, network dimensioning, and deployment services.With the experience of hundreds of thousands of successful implementations, including macro, DAS, Small Cells, and Wi-Fi, the world’s leading network operators and OEMs trust our knowledge and experience to plan, perform, troubleshoot, and implement an array of technologies and solutions.TeleWorld helps customers plan, design, manage, measure, and monetize opportunities throughout the network lifecycle and across every element of their network.Come join our Veteran-Friendly Team. The Company with Great Benefits and certified as "A Great Place to Work". Responsibilities:Lab Architecture & Maintenance
  • Build layered testbeds that emulate real-world topologies (high-density public venues, enterprise campus, MDUs).
  • Rack, cable, and document APs, controllers, switches, traffic generators, and RF isolation chambers.
  • Manage golden firmware libraries, license pools, and lab asset inventory.
Test Planning & Automation
  • Author functional, regression, roaming, and performance test plans covering KPIs such as throughput, latency, jitter, DFS recovery, WPA3 authentication, and OFDMA efficiency.
  • Automate configuration, traffic-generation, and result-collection workflows using Python, Ansible, REST/GraphQL APIs, and GitLab CI or Jenkins pipelines.
  • Maintain “one-click” scripts that bring the lab from clean slate to fully configured scenario in minutes.
Execution & Analysis
  • Run active/passive and spectrum tests with tools such as Ekahau Sidekick, AirMagnet Spectrum Analyzer, Wireshark, EyePA, IxChariot, Spirent TestCenter, and iPerf.
  • Capture packet and RF traces, isolate root causes, and work with firmware, cloud, and field-engineering teams to reproduce and fix defects.
  • Produce clear, data-rich reports that summarize findings, highlight risks, and recommend remediation.
Quality Gate & Release Management
  • Own the release-gate checklist for new code drops, hardware revisions, and cloud feature rollouts.
  • Track defect metrics (pass/fail counts, leakage to field, test-cycle time) and drive continuous-improvement initiatives to shorten release intervals while raising quality.
Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
  • Serve as Wi-Fi subject-matter expert to 5G RAN, DAS, and CBRS teams for coexistence and shared-spectrum testing.
  • Publish lab runbooks, API examples, and troubleshooting playbooks in Confluence; conduct brown-bag sessions to level up peers.
Qualifications:
  • Education / Experience – BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline and 3 + years hands-on testing or optimization of enterprise or carrier-grade Wi-Fi networks.
  • Certifications – At least one of: CWNA, CWAP, CWSP, ECSE Design/Advanced, or vendor equivalents (Cisco CCNP Enterprise Wireless, Aruba ACMP, Juniper Mist ACDX).
Technical Proficiency:
  • 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/6E standards, WPA2/WPA3-Enterprise, 802.1X, VLAN/QoS tagging.
  • Traffic-generation and RF-analysis tools (IxChariot, Spirent, TeraVM, Ekahau, Wire-/EyePA, AirMagnet Spectrum).
  • Scripting/automation—Python (paramiko / netmiko / PyATS), Ansible, REST/JSON, Git.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and version control (GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub).
  • Soft Skills – Meticulous documentation, strong analytical mindset, ability to communicate clearly with cross-functional teams.
Preferred / “Nice-to-Have”
  • Experience validating Wi-Fi 7 (EHT) features, AFC interaction, or 6 GHz coexistence.
  • Exposure to AI-driven WLAN assurance (Marvis, Cisco AI Analytics) and telemetry pipelines (Kafka, ELK).
  • ISTQB Foundation or equivalent software-test certification.
  • Basic knowledge of LTE/5G NR, CBRS, or DAS for coexistence testing.
Join Our Veteran-Friendly Team:Are you a veteran or a veteran spouse with expertise in telecommunications? Join our team at TeleWorld Solutions, where we value your military experience and provide great benefits. We invite all veterans and veteran spouses to bring their skills and dedication to our team.TeleWorld Solutions is committed to employing a diverse workforce and provides Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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