Network Test Engineer Senior Specialist

Employment Type Permanent

Job Title

Network Test Engineer Senior Specialist

Job Summary

The Senior Network Test Engineer plays a key role to ensuring that any device, application and/or change to the network delivers an outstanding customer experience. You lead business and product verification testing of end to end solutions prior to deployment; unit testing of complete product lifecycles; and ensure that devices are compatible with the network, without degrading the customer experience of other devices on the network. The Senior Network Test Engineer uses deep expertise in planning, designing, automating and conducting testing across a wide range of network technologies. You collaborate and partner with internal technical teams and external suppliers/partners, to ensure testing is completed according to plan, and all new and existing Telstra products, systems, platforms and networks perform to the highest standard.

Focus of the Role

We re looking for an experienced telecom professional with strong expertise across Mobile Core, IMS Core, VoLTE and 5G Core, combined with hands-on capability in Python-based automation, API integration and CI/CD.

The role will focus on working across complex product and platform network environments, bringing together deep telecom network knowledge with automation practices to support modern, scalable network solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Work across Mobile Core and IMS Core network environments.
• Contribute to network architecture across product and platform networks.
• Work with VoLTE and 5G Core Service-Based Architecture (SBA).
• Develop and maintain network automation using Python and Robot Framework.
• Build and work with REST APIs to support automation and integration.
• Drive automation through CI/CD practices.
• Support deployment and configuration within cloud-based network environments.
• Apply telecom protocol knowledge across network integration, troubleshooting and solution delivery.
• Work with modern network technologies including network slicing, edge computing and orchestration.
• Support virtualised/containerised network environments where required.

Technical Skills

Must Have

• Strong hands-on experience with Mobile Core Networks.
• Strong knowledge of IMS Core.
• Experience with network architecture, particularly product and platform networks.
• Strong understanding of VoLTE.
• Hands-on knowledge of 5G Core Service-Based Architecture.
• Strong programming/scripting experience with Python.
• Experience with Robot Framework.
• Experience working with REST APIs.
• Strong expertise in automation and CI/CD.

Good to Have

• Strong understanding of telecom and networking protocols including:
• SIP
• Diameter
• TCP/IP
• GTP
• Http/http2
• Knowledge of network slicing, edge computing and orchestration.
• Experience with cloud deployment and configuration.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenStack.
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment.

Essential Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability within complex telecom network environments.
• Ability to combine traditional telecom core expertise with modern automation practices.
• Comfortable working across network architecture, automation and cloud/virtualised environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex network and integration issues.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills when working across technical and engineering teams.

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