OSS Test & Automation Engineer
AST SpaceMobile3 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 and its global partners are building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones. SpaceMobile service is expected to provide cost-effective, high-speed mobile broadband services with global coverage to all end-users, regardless of where they live, work or travel, without the need to purchase special equipment.