As part of the Software Verification and Validation (SV&V;), Handheld Testing Team, you will have the opportunity to work with exciting handheld projects, helping to ensure that the product we release is of the highest quality. The successful candidate will be actively involved in testing activities for a project including handheld test design, test execution and reporting. He/She will be responsible for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of testing, and contribute to the reduction of turnaround time for completing tests.

RESPONSIBILITIES Generating creative solutions to complex testing problems. Document processes and participating in ongoing process improvement. Analyse, assess and create testing scripts/programs. Ensure issues found are properly tracked throughout the software life cycle, from discovery to closure. Perform statistical analysis of test results to create reports on the quality of the software. Develop and execute various types of tests such as regression, performance, capacity, GUI, integration and functional tests on production and prototype hardware.

REQUIREMENTS Bachelor's degree in a computer-related discipline. Ability to work under tight deadlines. Desire to be a professional in the software testing field. Willingness to learn solid bug tracking and test reporting skills. Effective tracking, maintenance and update of test cases and test suites. Excellent analytical and problem determination. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Detail-oriented and creative with a questioning mind. Initiative and innovation skills with passion for process improvement. Knowledge of wireless technology an asset . Knowledge and/or experience with Office suite, databases and report writing an asset . Strong technical background; able to dissect product changes and target testing appropriately. Knowledge and/or experience using Dev Track or other industry standard defect management tool.

Our client requires Senior/Software Engineers to join their expanding team. You will have a proven real-time system development background combined with excellent Telecoms knowledge, ideally from a Signalling/Protocol background. The role covers all aspects from the software lifecycle (requirements, capture, design, coding and testing), with an element of sustaining (bug fixing) and you will be required to interface with various other functions throughout the project lifecycle. Ideal candidate will have SS7experience, ISUP and ISDN is desirable. Knowledge of the full software life cycle, experience with S/W Change Management Systems (ideally Rational Clearcase & Clearquest), UNIX/SUN/Solaris , prior VoIP knowledge (SIP, SIP-T, MGCP, H.323) and ability to be hands on/practical with the kit.

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading digital telecoms testing company with a reputation for providing state-of-the-art test systems and world-class support services to Network Equipment Manufacturers and Service Providers across the globe.

SUPPORT OBJECTIVES:

• Maintain Company reputation for providing unrivalled technical support in the test equipment industry. • Provide prompt, accurate and professional responses to customers’ technical questions. • Quickly identify system problems and pursue resolution via Problem Report (PR) and Enhancement Report (ER) verification and follow-up through to delivery of the solution to the customer. • Develop and present training courses and applications tutorials to customers. • Develop demonstrations and prototype applications for training, sales and customer evaluation purposes. • Create and maintain profiles on customers and their applications. • Work with other support, engineering and sales staff to improve internal processes and tools to make support and training efforts more efficient.

SALES OBJECTIVES:

• Be constantly aware of and promote sales opportunities during training and support interactions with customers. • Identify key technical contacts with all customers and develop close working relationships. • Make pro-active support calls to all customers, especially quiet accounts. • Take primary responsibility for ensuring renewal of designated support contracts.

MARKETING OBJECTIVES

• Collect information from customers on competitive internal and external test equipment. Provide this information to the sales team. • Compile input on product service improvements requested by customers. Provide this information to the sales team.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Degree qualification (Computer Science or similar) or equivalent working experience in product applications • UNIX, LINUX, Windows OS; C and C++ programming. • Minimum 2 years software engineering experience. • Telecommunications background with experience in telecom and/or datacom protocols: UMTS, HSPA, SS7, LTE, IMS, GSM etc. • Practical trouble-shooter of complex technical problems. • Excellent presentational and teaching skills. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Excellent interpersonal skills. • Travel to remote/overseas customer sites as required.

Software Test Engineer

Our client, a world leading Telecoms equipment manufacturer seeks a talented engineer with protocol knowledge (SS7, ISUP, ISDN, SIP, SIGTRAN) and /or Unix, PERL, Tcl, EXPECT scripting skills for testing and test automation.

The ideal candidate will have an awareness of software testing processes, methodologies and the Software Development Lifecycle.

Previous experience with test equipment (especially the Catapult MGTS) would also be extremely useful.

Salary / Remuneration is negotiable and dependent on relevant experience.

Excellent SW Engineering Graduates with aptitude to work in a 1st class R&D;environment will also be considered.

Software Test Engineer

Our client, a world leading Telecoms equipment manufacturer seeks a talented engineer with protocol knowledge (SS7, ISUP, ISDN, SIP, SIGTRAN) and /or Unix, PERL, Tcl, EXPECT scripting skills for testing and test automation.

The ideal candidate will have an awareness of software testing processes, methodologies and the Software Development Lifecycle.

Previous experience with test equipment (especially the Catapult MGTS) would also be extremely useful.

Salary / Remuneration is negotiable and dependent on relevant experience.

Excellent SW Engineering Graduates with aptitude to work in a 1st class R&D;environment will also be considered.

Position

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a world leader in the mobile communications market.

The successful candidates will be part of a team focused on the development of leading-edge radio protocol stack software development for standardized wireless technologies, particularly GSM/GPRS/EDGE/E-EDGE, WCDMA/HSDPA/HSUPA, LTE/OFDM. The positions will involve evaluating, defining and designing various layers of wireless protocol stack including L1 Physical Layer and Algorithms, L1 Control (Logical L1), L2 RLC/MAC, LLC, RR/RRC etc; establishing approaches to memory management, inter-task and inter-processor communication. In addition, investigating and resolving integration and performance related issues for the CPU, DSP and mixed signal hardware using test equipment, logging devices and ICEs.

Skills and qualifications
• Minimum 3 years experience in Protocol Stack and/or DSP design and development of current wireless technologies, particularly GSM/GPRS/EDGE and WCDMA/HSDPA/HSUPA
• Some exposure to other technologies such as OFDM, EVDO, A-GPS, 802.11/16, CDMA-1x, would be beneficial
• Strong embedded C programming skills essential
• Exposure to Assembly programming desirable
• Experience producing memory management designs including overlays, buffering, managing caching, DMA access, bus latency and internal memory assignment
• Control and data plane designs
• Physical layer APIs, device drivers, knowledge of wireless baseband
• Modular, layered software design either on DSP or MCU
• Real-time OS firmware development environment and debugging on multi-processor hardware architectures
• Experience in embedded development, simulation and test tools and languages
• Experience using test equipment, logging equipment and practical experience testing embedded code
• Experience with slow clocking (timing adjustment after exiting sleep modes) desirable
• Experience with programming microstate machines beneficial
• Bachelor, Masters or PhD in relevant subject
• Good communications skills and a team player

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading digital telecoms testing company with a reputation for providing state-of-the-art test systems and world-class support services to Network Equipment Manufacturers and Service Providers across the globe.

The successful candidate will work with telecoms protocols and state machines to develop software utilizing the C, C++, DCPL, Tcl/TK and Java programming languages on Linux operating system to emulate communication interactions over new and existing telecom networks.

You will also work on project assignments and software development activities that extend throughout the total product life cycle, which includes analysis, design, coding development, testing, maintenance, enhancement, debugging, and some graphical user interface and embedded systems development.

Technical skills:
• Good BS/MS degree or equivalent working experience in software development
• Experience in telecom or network communication protocols
• Experience with developing software on Linux using C and/or C++
• C programming – essential, preferably under Linux
• Event driven state machine implementation
• Software programming skills, including C, along with real time software design techniques
• Experience in state machine development, particularly at the L2 level
• A strong understanding of previous generations of wireless stacks such as UMTS, GPRS, WiMax/Wifi, particularly at the MAC/RLC layers
• Appropriate and in-depth experience in a telecoms/datacomms environment
• The ideal candidate will have experience in development using PowerQuic processors and a solid understanding of LTE
• Strong debugging skills and ability to work closely with support engineers to solve customer issues quickly

Personal skills:
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• Ability to comprehensively read telecom specifications and extract the key development components and determine relevant use cases and design approach
• Self-motivated individual with the ability to learn new technologies quickly

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading wireless communications company

Position Summary

The successful candidate will be developing and maintaining database solutions to track test results, build configurations and known issues, with associated scripted test harness support to control the execution of multimillion pound test equipment. Further scripting is required to analyse results and manage defects automatically.

You will also be involved with developing test environments in ‘C’, including test codec generation using Perl (based on 3G ASN.1 specifications). Opportunities also exist for C++ test case generation from HTML logs.

The ideal candidate will possess a diverse range of programming skills and techniques, including C/C++ and Perl and will have proven ability for independent development of novel automation solutions.

They will also be exposed to leading edge development of mobile communications stacks and be presented with the opportunity to train and acquire knowledge in this area.

Essential Skills And Qualifications
• Good degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Proven ability to programme in at least one of C, C++, Perl.
• Self motivated and able to work independently.
• Desirable Skills: Good working knowledge of C, C++ & Perl.
• Experience of Database design and implementation. DOORs & DXL.
• Compiler tools & techniques such as Yacc & Yapp & BNF or PROLOG.
• Windows GUI programming (C or HTML based).
• Socket & low level IO programming Communications related languages: ASN.1, TTCN, CSN.1, SDL. XML, HTML, Java. Make, TCL/TK, DOS scripting.

Fantastic opportunity to join a world leader in the mobile communications market with a history of developing breakthrough wireless solutions. We are looking for driven individuals who can take our wireless data products to the next level in the global wireless market. 



Position Summary

The successful candidate will be working in a Software Verification & Validation team. This team has the main responsibility of product testing handheld devices on UMTS/HSDPA and GSM/GPRS/HSDPA networks. Tasks include planning, developing, maintaining and executing tests cases, increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of testing, and contributing to the reduction of turnaround time for completing tests. Responsibilities may also include configuring, maintaining and administering various components of the backend support infrastructure. The candidate is expected to be competent in generating creative solutions to complex testing problems, documenting processes and participating in ongoing processes for improvement. A primary aspect of this role is managing product defects and issues. This will entail accurately generating problem reports and properly tracking them throughout the software lifecycle up to eventual resolution.


Essential Skills And Qualifications
• Proven testing experience, preferably in the Telecom domain
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Solid bug tracking and test reporting skills
• Excellent analytical and problem determination
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment
• Strong technical background; able to dissect product changes and target testing appropriately
• Experience working in a Microsoft Windows environment
• Programming, Automation or scripting experience is an asset
• University degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Comprehension of wireless technologies and protocols is an asset

Fantastic opportunity to join a world leader in wireless innovation. 


Position Summary

Working within the systems and development teams the successful candidate will be working with cutting edge hardware and software and high-end test equipment, and will be responsible for running and analyzing protocol and interoperability (IOT) testing on 3GPP mobiles across multiple air interfaces such as GPRS, UMTS, and HSDPA.

You will be able to look into correcting handset code for found issues, work directly with feature designers and assist with the development of automated testing frameworks and protocol stack development. You will also participate in applied research projects enabling you to gain further expertise into Wireless protocols.


ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Good knowledge of wireless communication technologies including 3GPP (GSM/GPRS, UMTS/HSPA), Wi-Fi, IP, with ability to critique written standards contribution and whitepapers Must have experience with 2G, 2.5G and/or 3G protocol stack development and testing Solid understanding of Mobile phone software and hardware architecture Hands on experience with test tools and equipment Proficient communicator Ability to handle complex subject matter across various technical infrastructures. Good analytical and problem solving skills. Degree or Masters Degree in a relevant discipline

Salary dependent on experience

Fantastic opportunity to join an early stage product development company at the leading edge of the Mobile Telecoms technology.

To strengthen our world class systems team we are looking for an experienced Software Engineer with strong UMTS protocol stack development experience.

This is an ideal career move for a self motivated, creative talent looking for the opportunity to shape a new class of wireless infrastructure system that will have significant impacts on the Mobile industry.

Technical skills:

UMTS Non-Access Stratum (MM/GMM, CC, SM, SMS, SS) and Access Stratum (RRC, RLC, MAC) Experience in HSDPA, packet-switched services, and UTRAN connection and mobility procedures Knowledge of 3GPP GAN core-network interface or 3GPP IMS SIP core-network interface Strong C embedded software programming experience.

Qualifications and experience

Minimum BSc/BEng (Hons) or equivalent in a relevant technical discipline.

Salary dependent on experience

Fantastic opportunity to join an early stage product development company at the leading edge of the Mobile Telecoms technology.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to strengthen our world class systems team.

This is an ideal career move for a self motivated, creative talent looking for the opportunity to shape a new class of wireless infrastructure system that will have significant impacts on the Mobile industry.

Technical skills:

Strong SIP-based protocol stack software development experience in an IMS/3GPP environment. Strong C embedded software programming experience. Strong development experience in the SIP/SDP sub-layers and desirable experience in IPSec, SMS/SS over SIP, and UMTS.

Qualifications and experience

Minimum BSc/BEng (Hons) or equivalent in a relevant technical discipline. In depth experience in an IMS SIP-based protocol stack development.

Fantastic opportunity to join an early stage product development company at the leading edge of the Mobile Telecoms technology

We are looking for an experienced System Test Engineer with strong programming / scripting skills to strengthen our world class systems team in use of Catapult Protocol Test System.

This is an ideal career move for a self motivated, creative talent looking for the opportunity to shape a new class of wireless infrastructure system that will have significant impacts on the Mobile industry.

Technical skills:

UMTS circuit-switch services HSDPA Packet-switched services UTRAN connection and mobility procedures Knowledge of 3GPP GAN core-network interface or 3GPP IMS SIP core-network interface Catapult Protocol Test System.

Qualifications and experience

Minimum BSc/BEng (Hons) or equivalent in a relevant technical discipline. ISEB Foundation in Software Testing or equivalent experience.

Salary dependent on experience

Fantastic opportunity to join an early stage product development company at the leading edge of the Mobile Telecoms technology.

To strengthen our world class systems team we are looking for an experienced Software Test Engineer with proven strong scripting / programming skills.

This is an ideal career move for a self motivated, creative talent looking for the opportunity to shape a new class of wireless infrastructure system that will have significant impacts on the Mobile industry.

Technical skills:

Knowledge of IMS-related protocol testing on the IMS client side, specifically 3GPP IMS SIP/SDP. Experience of IPSec, SMS and SS over SIP, and UMTS protocol stack testing is also desirable
Strong programming / scripting skills in a modern computer language (Perl, C, DCPL). Ability to demonstrate understanding of C/C++ programs.

Qualifications and experience

Minimum BSc/BEng (Hons) or equivalent in a relevant technical discipline. ISEB Foundation in Software Test or equivalent experience