
Design Verification Test Engineer
- Huntsville, AL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop or assist in the development of automated test applications and test systems from existing test cases or general requirement documents.
- Ensure that test applications, test procedures, test systems, and test cases verify system level functional specifications for advanced telecommunications networks and services.
- May work closely with design engineers to develop and automate test procedures.
- Work closely with HW/SW developers to recreate and resolve issues found during testing.
- Maintain accurate test procedure documentation.
- Analyze and interpret or assist in the analysis of test case results using debug output (CLI debug output, WireShark network traces, equipment level Debug output, etc.) to provide specific failure mechanism information to Design Engineering.
- Analyze or assist in the analysis of problem re-creation results using debug output to provide specific failure mechanism information to Design Engineering.
- May assist in the maintenance and development of automated software stability tests (smoke tests) or other test automation related software within SDVT.
- May train and guide test technicians in performance of test cases.
- May assist in managing offsite testers.
- Other projects and assignments may result and be assigned to accommodate the changing needs of the department and the Company.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Information Science) required.
- 0-2 years’ experience in telecommunications network element testing and test automation required
- Experience in the test automation development process, tools (such as ITest, MIB browsers, terminal emulation packages) and languages (such as TCL, Perl or PYTHON).
- Knowledge of Standard Telecommunications test equipment such as traffic generators, call generators, and the APIs used to automate them is required.
- Familiarity with software version control tools and practices as well as common industry test management tools such as Quality Center.
- Familiarity with L2/L3 network device functionality, configuration, User Interface protocols (TCP/IP, SNMP, DHCP, IGMP, LACP, PPP, PPPoE, etc), and common industry test equipment (N2X, Spirent Test Center / Abacus, IXiA) is required.
- Little to no travel is expected for this position.
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Information Science) preferred.
- Experience in DSLAM, Carrier Ethernet, Next Gen Broadband Network testing (SIP, EoCu, xDSL, EOAM, etc). is preferred.
- CISCO Certification preferred.