About this Opportunity
This is a position at Ericsson R&D, where you will work with a team of highly motivated engineers to deliver Ericsson's world-leading telecom application servers. We are building a team to consolidate our leadership in this marketplace and help drive the next-generation Cloud Native product. These telecom applications are part of Ericsson's Cloud Communication portfolio.
Within our product development units, Agile methodology and philosophy are practiced in spirit. You will play a crucial role as the gatekeeper between Development and QA, ensuring feature delivery is reliable, automated, and integrated with platform components.
What You Will Do
- Platform & ADP Integration: Integrate ADP (Application Development Platform) components into the overall solution and ensure they work seamlessly with new feature deliveries.
- CI/CD Automation: Ensure test cases run successfully in Jenkins and Spinnaker pipelines, while continuously improving automation workflows for efficiency and reliability.
- Test Automation Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks, ensuring high coverage for functional, performance, and non-functional requirements.
- Product Use-Cases in Platform Context: Validate product use-cases end-to-end in the context of the platform, ensuring interoperability and performance across components.
- Cloud & Virtualization Testing: Drive feature validation and testing in cloud-native environments (Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, OpenStack) with a focus on scalability, resilience, and deployment automation.
- Analysis & Troubleshooting: Analyze test failures, identify root causes, and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues and drive bug fixes.
- Release Readiness: Be accountable for feature quality and maintenance, including test analysis, automation, integration/release validation, and customer deliverables.
- Innovation & Learning: Continuously experiment, learn, and adopt new cloud and automation technologies to strengthen platform and product quality.
- Customer Focus: Support customers by troubleshooting complex product issues in live or pre-production environments.
You will bring
- Strong knowledge of UNIX/Linux, Java, Python, Shell scripting, and test automation practices.
- Hands-on knowledge of virtualization and cloud technologies (Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, OpenStack).
- Hands-on experience in test frameworks and tools such as JCAT, DTG, Cucumber, JMeter, LoadRunner.
- Deep understanding of software system integration, functional testing, and performance testing.
- Strong knowledge of network protocols (IP, TCP, HTTP, etc.).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Mason2) and their integration with test automation.
- Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, NoSQL).
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Collaborative mindset, customer focus, and excellent written/verbal communication.
- Experience in running Scrum Activities.
Plus / Exposure (Good to Have)
- Exposure to platform components in cloud-native environments such as FCAPS/OAM, Security, Logging, Certificate Management, and High Availability/Data Redundancy.
- Additional experience in non-functional / characteristics testing (resiliency, failover, high availability).
Key Qualifications
- Experience: 5-10 years of overall software test experience, with at least 2 years on a virtualized network API or telecom carrier-grade product.
- Education: B.Tech in CS/EC/EE or related studies (M.Tech is a plus).
Top Skills
What We Do
Ericsson builds the digital connectivity the world relies on. Our technology underpins the mobile networks, platforms, and systems that billions of people, businesses, and societies depend on every day.
We are a global leader in communications technology, delivering mobile network infrastructure, cloud software, and wireless connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Our networks support connectivity across 180+ countries, helping power everyday communication as well as critical digital services at global scale.
Connectivity has evolved far beyond consumer mobile use. Today, nearly 80% of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile networks, and Ericsson is helping shape what comes next. We are advancing 5G and 5G Advanced, developing network APIs that open connectivity to the global developer ecosystem, and applying automation and AI to make networks more intelligent, efficient, and resilient.
Ericsson was the first company to launch live 5G networks on five continents, and our 5G platform is now commercially live in 150+ networks across 60+ countries. We also support more than 36,000 enterprise customers, enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for industries such as manufacturing, aviation, logistics, utilities, and public safety, where reliability and performance are mission critical.
Innovation is central to how we work. Ericsson has approximately 28,000 employees in research and development, backed by one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the industry with 60,000+ granted patents. Our engineers, researchers, and technologists work across 100+ global R&D sites, helping define how networks evolve and how digital infrastructure is built for the long term.
As the world moves toward a mobile-first, AI-powered, and cloud-driven future, connectivity becomes the foundation for digital transformation across every industry. Ericsson is building that foundation, shaping the future of digital connectivity through technology that operates at global scale and supports real-world impact, today and for what comes next.
Why Work With Us
Ericsson is a place for people who want to work on technology that powers everyday life. You’ll contribute to large-scale systems used every day, tackle complex challenges in live environments, and keep developing your skills and career in your own vision.
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