OSS Test & Automation Engineer
AST SpaceMobile5 months ago
Baltimore, MD, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain OSS automation workflows and orchestration scripts for network operations, fault management, service assurance, reporting, and inventory.
- Identify manual or repetitive operational processes for automation, manage the automation backlog, estimate effort, and drive work through production delivery.
- Design and maintain automated test suites covering nominal, fault, and edge-case conditions.
- Execute test plans, document results, track defects, and coordinate resolution with internal teams.
- Create test plans, test cases, test reports, coverage summaries, and workflow documentation.
- Gather requirements and transfer knowledge with Service Assurance and Service Delivery teams.
- Identify automation failures, performance degradation, and reliability issues; lead root-cause analysis and remediation.
- Improve automation reliability, coverage, and maintainability using operational feedback and incident learnings.
- Provide first-line support for production OSS automated processes and workflows.
- Maintain accurate documentation for all deployed automation workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, telecommunications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 3 years of professional experience in automation engineering, test engineering, or a combined software/QA role.
- Experience designing and building automation workflows, orchestration scripts, or operational automation pipelines beyond test scripts.
- Proficiency in Python or another scripting language and familiarity with test frameworks such as pytest or Robot Framework.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration or BPM tools such as Camunda, Apache Airflow, or Ansible.
- Ability to query and manipulate SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
- Knowledge of test strategy, test case development, test automation frameworks, and defect lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with telecom OSS concepts including FCAPS and TMF eTOM, plus practical network operations or service assurance experience.
- Working knowledge of NETCONF/YANG, SNMP, or TMF Open APIs.
- Experience with OSS platforms, NMS/EMS systems, or network simulation tools.
- Experience integrating automation with REST APIs and event-driven messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS.
- Experience embedding automated tests and quality gates in CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK for production observability.
- Comfort developing, deploying, and debugging automation in Linux.
- Preferred experience in telecom, network operations, or OSS/BSS systems.
Benefits
- Standard office or remote home-office work arrangement is supported.
- Occasional after-hours incident response participation may be required.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache AirflowApache CassandraApache KafkaDockerGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGrafanagRPCInfluxDBJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPostmanPrometheuspytestPythonRabbitMQRobot FrameworkSQL
About AST SpaceMobile
AST SpaceMobile builds a space-based cellular broadband network that connects directly to standard smartphones, selling capacity to mobile network operators and government users. The public company, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Midland, Texas, trades on NASDAQ. It has demonstrated direct 4G/5G voice and data links from its BlueWalker 3 test satellite and is developing commercial satellites to extend coverage to remote and underserved areas.