Broadband Gateway Test engineer @ Tata Elxsi

Business Overview:

Tata Elxsi works with leading broadcasters, operators and healthcare domain product companies to create solutions for smarter living, engaged entertainment, a digital future driven by IoT, OTT, analytics, artificial intelligence and healthcare solutions thereby enabling new revenue streams and enhanced customer experience.

As growth leaders in the Media & Communications industry, we are helping the worlds best-known MSOs and OEMs right from architecture, design, development to deployment. We bring together technologies that accelerate development and foster innovations in the Embedded, Networking, and Broadcast domains.

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Broadband Engineer to join our Media and Communications BU. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Broadband testing (OpenWRT/RDKB/Prpl), automation, monitoring, and cloud platforms. This role is critical to ensuring the stability, security, and performance of over 1,300 Unix-based servers across production and development environments.

The successful candidate will possess excellent troubleshooting skills, a collaborative mindset, and hands-on experience with scripting, cloud systems, and monitoring tools. The role also includes participating in on-call rotations and engaging with third-party vendors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand Product specifications, network architecture, and customer requirements
• Design test plans, test cases and scenarios for broadband features
• Setup test environments including broadband CPEs, access networks and traffic generators
• Perform functional, performance, interoperability and regression testing
• Validate data throughput, latency, jitter and packet loss under different load conditions
• Verify broadband features across firmware versions and hardware revisions
• Develop and maintain test automation scripts
• Issue analysis and debugging
• Collaborate with various teams to root cause and verify fixes
• Cloud Certification testing
• Reporting and documentation
• Cross functional collaboration

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software testing experience cross platform - Win, Linux and Mac
• Experience in Broadband testing (stack does not matter - can be Openwrt /RDK-B/ Prpl)
• Wi-Fi & Easy-Mesh Standards - Standards, Band steering, Mesh topology, AP Steering, Multi-AP spec
• Very Good Understanding of TR181 Specification & TR369 Protocol
• Debug tools & Issue Triage
• Experience writing testing documents (STDs/ATPs) and knowledge of various testing methodologies
• Knowledge of automation scripting and a programming language
• Experience with AI testing - an advantage
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, sharing knowledge and improving team processes.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Calm and composed under pressure, especially during incident response.

Optional :

• Experience with both frontend and backend testing of cloud-base services
• Knowledge of GCP cloud computing, kubernetes , MySQL, and REST API

Why Join Us:

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge media domain technologies.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.