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Wifi Test Engineer Ipswich, England

Full Time Ipswich, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today

Job description

Wifi Test Engineer

Job Req ID: 15289

Posting Date: 10-May-2023

Function: Software Engineering

Location: Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, United Kingdom

Salary: Attractive Salary + Bonus

Working Style: Hybrid

Why this job matters

We are looking for people who enjoy exploring new technologies, developing new skills, using industry leading development techniques and have an inquisitive nature in interpreting data presented to them. We need you if you like a wide variety of work, enjoy a challenge and are passionate about delivering high quality hardware and software engineering in the Wi-Fi space.

You’ll be a Professional Engineer in a squad that develops, maintains and executes automated and manual testing to prove the quality of the Wireless delivery of the BT Home Hubs. In the squad, you will contribute to the full agile lifecycle, putting the Wi-Fi product features through their paces to validate for our customers. You’ll write code for tests, configure our manual and automation test tools, analyse results, prepare and share our result data to the decision making process for releases and review in-life data for our customer base.

We use our expertise and analysis skills to ensure the test coverage of the Wi-Fi testing within the CPE proves that the CPE provides ‘the best in class’ Wi-Fi experience for our Broadband and TV customers – come and join us to see your skills make a real difference to the people you see every day.

What you’ll be doing

Develops and maintains the Wi-Fi test capability for new and existing products within the Broadband portfolio
Responsible for keeping test suites current and liasing with the Senior Engineer to create and integrate new test suites as they become available
Managing the test rigs and applying upgrades and improvements to capacity when needed
Adheres to engineering best practices
Applies agile principles to the way features are tested and validated
Engages in agile lifecycle ceremonies
Analyses and resolves issues
Innovates with the available test tools and seeks to improve the level of automation
Analyses results from automated tests and can interpret results into meaningful reports for stakeholders
Analyses data from in-life devices to observe patterns of issues that could be observed and caught with automated tests

What you'll bring

Mandatory

Experience of testing IEEE standards 802.11
Experience with CPE testing, specifically around the Wi-Fi Element of the CPE
Knowledge of the Radio spectrum and where Wi-Fi fits within the spectrum
Experience with RF Spectrum and Wi-Fi analysers and Wi-Fi test tools
Knowledge of Wi-Fi standards and implementation
Have a proven ability to learn new technologies and put these into practice

Preferred

CWNA or equivalent experience of working with Wi-Fi standards and testing techniques
Experience of working with Windows / Linux
Experience with IP network solutions

Your Benefits

10% on target bonus
BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
World-class training and development opportunities
Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan and access to 100's of retails discounts including BT shop
Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

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