15 days ago
India (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Define and execute end-to-end validation strategies for coherent pluggable optics and transponder product features.
- Develop system-level, feature-level, and regression test plans aligned with product architecture, standards, and customer use cases.
- Lead white-box and black-box validation across hardware, ASIC, firmware, and software layers.
- Build and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and contribute to the test automation roadmap.
- Collaborate with hardware, optical, ASIC, firmware, and software teams to improve design for testability.
- Lead root-cause analysis of customer-found and field issues and expand test coverage to prevent recurrence.
- Track validation readiness, quality metrics, risk assessments, and release sign-off.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience validating optical telecom products.
- Strong expertise in coherent optics, transponders, OTN (G.709), Ethernet, and CMIS.
- Experience testing carrier-grade embedded systems in cross-functional environments.
- Hands-on experience with traffic testers, OSA, optical analyzers, power meters, VOAs, optical switches, and BER testers.
- Strong Python proficiency, preferably with pytest-based automation frameworks.
- Experience with test automation, Git, defect tracking, and test management tools.
- Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams.
About Nokia
Nokia builds telecom network equipment and software—covering mobile (4G/5G RAN and core), IP and optical networking, fixed access, and related services—for communications service providers, enterprises, and governments. The company also conducts advanced research through Nokia Bell Labs. Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Nokia is a public company with global operations and long-standing relationships with major mobile network operators worldwide.