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Nokia

Technical Specialist

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The Applied R&D Engineer -Technical Specialist conducts target-oriented research to directly apply findings to the specification, design, further development, and incremental improvement of products, services, systems, tools, processes, etc. Integrates, verifies, tests, and modifies SW / HW / system components and capitalises on innovative solutions to meet particular requirements and specifications.

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• Independently works within broad guidelines and uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues.

• Works with substantial discretion and uses specialist knowledge, analytical skills, judgment and broad conceptual and practical experience to solve complex problems and to contribute to process improvements.

• Transfers concepts for professional direction of own organisational unit into actionable measures.

• Provides working leadership and training to less experienced personnel.

• May lead small projects with limited risks and resource requirements.

• Analyses, designs, develops and tests products / services / improvements / bug resolutions for integrated hardware / software systems as per customers' requirements.

• Resolves customer trouble tickets. Diagnoses complex problems / issues (EG hardware, software, combination) and provides resolution or recommend corrective actions.

• Plans technical requirements from customers’ needs.

• Develops SW / HW build-controlled productions releases (EG main and update releases, service packages, maintenance updates, and customer design engineering).

• Defines product hardware / software evolutions through the creation and release of hardware / software documentation, hardware / software change control management, supplier and customer notifications.

• Retains technical and design knowledge for assigned products and technologies and provides training to the lower support teams (Tier 2 and Tier 3).

• Applies and maintains quality standards. Participates in process and tools evolutions and improvements.

• Applies the SW Care process (especially emergency case handling) contributing when needed to the fastest problem restoration.

Must Have Skills:

  • Master's in Computer Science Engineering with 8+ years of experience in Manual/automation testing for L2 & L2+, including Ethernet, VLAN, QoS, and Carrier Ethernet
  • Experience with working in Large GPON/PON access networks (OLT/ONT) and/or Routers/Switches.
  • Understanding of network configuration protocols like NetConf and YANG
  • Any combination of L2 & L2+ protocols => Layer 2 Forwarding, Switching, VLAN, xSTP, LLDP, IGMP, ARP, 802.1x, QoS, ERPS, CFM, and LACP.
  • Strong/Proficient in test automation using Python and manual testing practices.
  • Hands-on experience with traffic generators like Spirent or IXIA
  • Skilled in analysing, reproducing, and resolving complex system-level issues.

Nice to have skills:

  • Proven experience in test design, test bed preparation/setup, test execution, and reporting.
  • Advanced programming skills in Python to design and implement automated test scripts for protocol validation using:
    • Python / Robot Framework or similar
    • REST, NETCONF, or CLI APIs for device configuration
  • Develop automated regression pipelines using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.).
  • Build reusable libraries and frameworks for device interaction and traffic validation.