Wireless QA Engineer (WiFi 6 / WiFi 7 Testing)

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We are looking for a Wireless QA Engineer with 3–5 years of experience in WiFi 6 (802.11ax) and WiFi 7 (802.11be) tesIng. The ideal candidate should have strong experIse in wireless networking, test planning, automaIon, and performance validaIon. The candidate should possess hands-on programming/automaIon skills and experience in wireless performance, capacity, and scalability tesIng using VeriWave or equivalent traffic generaIon tools.

Key Responsibilies

Design, develop, and execute test plans and test cases for WiFi 6 and WiFi 7

Perform funcIonal, regression, interoperability, performance, scalability, stress, and stability tesIng of enterprise wireless

Validate wireless features such as WPA2/WPA3, 802.1X authenIcaIon, RADIUS, VLANs, QoS, Mesh, OFDMA, MU-MIMO, BSS Coloring, MulI-Link OperaIon (MLO), and seamless

Execute wireless performance, throughput, capacity, roaming, and scalability tesIng using VeriWave (or equivalent tools such as Spirent/Ixia).

Develop, maintain, and enhance automaIon frameworks and test scripts using Python or similar programming

Analyze packet captures using Wireshark and debug wireless protocol and networking

Collaborate with Development, Product Management, and Support teams to reproduce, analyze, and resolve product

ParIcipate in CI/CD-based test automaIon and conInuously improve test coverage and

Required Skills

3–5 years of experience in Wireless QA/TesIng.

Strong understanding of WiFi 6 (802.11ax) and WiFi 7 (802.11be) technologies and IEEE 11 standards.

Good knowledge of enterprise wireless networking, including WPA2/WPA3, 1X, RADIUS, DHCP, DNS, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, and QoS.

Hands-on experience in automa,on and programming using Python (preferred) or other scripIng

Experience in wireless performance and scalability tes,ng using VeriWave , including throughput, latency, roaming, and capacity validaIon.

Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking

Experience with Wireshark for packet capture and protocol

Familiarity with Linux environments and shell

Experience with defect tracking and test management tools such as

Strong analyIcal, debugging, problem-solving, and communicaIon

Preferred Skills

Experience with enterprise wireless Access Points and Wireless

Familiarity with automaIon frameworks such as PyTest , Robot Framework , or

Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab

Knowledge of REST APIs and network

Exposure to traffic generators such as Spirent TestCenter, Ixia, or OctoScope is an added

Knowledge of Firewall and Network Security concepts is

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electronics, InformaIon Science, TelecommunicaIons, or a related engineering

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