Staff QA Engineer – WiFi

This is a work-from-office / In-Office role based in our Hyderabad, India location.

What You Will Do: 

• Define and drive end-to-end QA and test strategies for core broadband, WiFi, and cloud-based solutions.
• Lead testing across firmware, cloud services, APIs, microservices, and network components.
• Design and execute comprehensive functional, integration, system, regression, performance, scalability, and reliability testing.
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and test infrastructure to improve test coverage and release confidence.
• Identify critical quality risks and establish appropriate test plans, quality gates, and release criteria.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, architects, product managers, and other QA teams to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Perform root-cause analysis of complex issues across distributed systems and drive defects to resolution.
• Mentor QA engineers and contribute to engineering best practices, automation standards, and quality processes.
• Provide technical leadership in improving testability, observability, CI/CD integration, and continuous quality engineering.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions, proactively identifying potential quality and reliability risks.
• Drive continuous improvements in test automation, defect prevention, test efficiency, and overall product quality.
• Acts as a technical quality leader for the Core Engineering organization.
• Operates with a high degree of ownership and independently drives complex, cross-functional quality initiatives.
• Influences engineering teams to adopt a quality-by-design and automation-first mindset.
• Mentors engineers and raises the overall technical capability of the QA organization.
• Serves as a subject-matter expert for complex quality and reliability challenges.

What We Are Looking For: 

• 12+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, with 5+ years leading QA for embedded systems, broadband, networking, WiFi, or cloud-based platforms.
• Strong expertise in defining end-to-end test strategies across firmware, cloud services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience in test automation using Python, Java, C++, or similar languages, with modern automation frameworks.
• Experience in functional, integration, regression, performance, scalability, and reliability testing.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, IPv4/IPv6, WiFi, and broadband gateway architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, test automation infrastructure, and quality engineering best practices.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across firmware, cloud, and networking environments.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional quality initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive automation-first and quality-by-design practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred: 

• Experience with broadband, WiFi, or CPE platforms.
• Familiarity with RDK-B, OpenSync, PrplOS, Embedded Linux, or similar platforms.
• Experience testing cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Broadband Forum standards such as TR-069, TR-181, and TR-369 (USP).
• Experience with performance, reliability, and security testing, along with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK.
• ISTQB or equivalent QA certification is a plus.

Education: 
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.