Quality Assurance Engineering Specialist- Test Manager

Job Req ID: 44107

Posting Date: 17 Feb 2025

Function: Software Engineering

Unit: Networks

Location:

Outer Ring Road, Bellandur, Bengaluru, India

Salary: competitive

Recruiter: Ishwinder Singh

Hiring Manager: Anjali

Location: Bangalore Mode - Hybrid

Why BT

We’ve always been an organisation with a purpose; to use the power of communication to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s firs telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast-changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulations and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So, if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Why this job matters

The QA Engineering Specialist independently executes a range of critical testing activities for a portfolio of products and services, driving best practice standards for test quality, resource planning and issue resolution, in alignment to business strategy and requirements.

What you’ll be doing

Responsible for all aspects of testing and integration from initial evaluation to Realisation into operational network. To set direction for the delivery across the full testing and integration life-cycle ensuring all key milestones are achieved in compliance with the Testing Framework.

Accountable for defining and communicating test approach to ensure risk mitigation strategy, agreeing and achieving key milestones and deliveries with external suppliers and internal stakeholders, articulating the working relationship at the start and securing agreement for the optimal balance of time, cost, and quality.

Developing and maintaining key relationships within Vendors, Design, Operations, Product owners, PMO, IT and Automation teams.

Accountable across the range of Mobile technologies, leading detailed investigations, defining the test approach, highlighting any significant risks, and translating into business recommendations.

Responsible for the planning, engagement and management of all test resources throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Undertaking virtual management, coaching and developing the skills and competencies in others, through on the job support, delegation, coaching, timely formal and informal feedback, training and development.

Managing the delivery of Programmes/ projects to meet the business needs and match expectations for cost, quality, reliability and time to market in line with BT Portfolio.

Utilise a broad knowledge of testing approaches, practices and techniques in order to engage up front in value streams, projects, Programmes etc., to define the strategy for testing BT’s products and services.

Identify what testing tools and technologies can be implemented, aligning with those already used across the broader design and development functions and those being developed by our strategic technology partners.

Work with the Automation teams to identify opportunities to drive automation first and increase our automation footprint over successive deliveries.

Create test design patterns for re-use in future solution design settings, including the test requirements for regression testing and in life Quality Assurance.

Work with the Environment delivery and support teams to ensure Mobile NW and IT environments keep up with testing tools and delivery requirements.

Managing and negotiating any change required to deliver business needs and project benefits and take ownership for issues and escalations which arise as a result of testing and see them through to resolution

The skills you'll need

Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Electronics, Computing, Telecommunications.

Solid working knowledge & understanding of 3GPP mobile telecommunication networks (2G-5G) and likely a specialist in one or several areas.

Experience of authoring Test strategy, Test planning and Test specifications for mobile applications, Services and Platforms.

Experience of managing & delivering integration and acceptance Testing of telecommunications services and Platforms preferably experience with delivering Ericsson, Nokia and Oracle products.

Experience in test management to drive test execution, leading defect troubleshooting, symptoms gathering and result evaluation.

Knowledge & Experience of working with Jira, Confluence & GitLab.

Ability to work under pressure and to assist peers in same situation whilst ensuring time, cost and quality requirements are maintained.

Hands on experience with using monitoring tools like NetScout, Wireshark, Ericsson CNOM etc.

Technical Skills:

Solid knowhow of one or more of the below Mobile technology areas (Platforms, e2e flows and Signaling protocols ):

Evolved Packet Core (3GPP LTE)

(MME, HSS, SGW, PGW, ePDG etc.)

GSM & UMTS Architectures

(Circuit switched voice & messaging, MSC, SMSc, SGSN, GGSN, EIR, HLR etc)

Authentication, Policy Control & Charging Mechanisms

(PCF, OCS, CDR, Radius, AAA)

Cloud Architectures & Network Function Virtualisation

(EMS, VNF, NFVI)

5GSA Architecture

(AMF, SMF, UPF, SBA, HTTP2 API Services)

Nice to have skills:

Basic experience in Test Automation, DevOps, CI CD and any Automation test framework tools like SEGRON, Spirent, Landslide.

Basic knowhow of Cloud Computing Technologies like Kubernetes, EMS, VNF, NFVI.

System engineering skills - Scripting and Automation.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:

Leading inclusively and Safely

I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes

I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:

Delivering for the customer

I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy

I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:

Growth mindset

I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.

Building for the future

I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

Who is the BT Group

We're the leading communications provider with customers in 180 countries. Across the world we enable customer's digital transformations so they can thrive. Our focus is simple: be the global provider-of-choice for managed network and IT infrastructure services.