Department Summary
DISH is transforming the future of connectivity. We're doing it by building the country's first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from scratch. The foundation of a connected world, it's a network free of the limitations of the past, and flexible enough to satisfy all the social, economic and transformative needs of the changing world.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibilities

• Review vendor/DISH documents such as Product Requirement Document (PRD), Network Design Requirements (NDR), Lab Engineering Plan (LEP) workbook and product documents provided by vendors
• Establish concrete DISH functional tests with reference to PRD for individual products, NDR for each network element such as AMF/UPF, PCRF, IMS, CU/DU/RU, Proxy, DNS, Load balancer, Firewall, Routers etc. Please note functional testing includes verifying all features of each network element, and leverages traffic generators such as Keysight, Spirent products and other tools such as Wireshark and other node specific tools.
• Review functional requirements that are developed for each product/node, with key DISH stakeholders that include key product owners and operation POC's.
• Work with vendors in consolidating and documenting all functional tests performed either by vendors in their own labs and/or DISH provided Lab instances
• Create Test cases per finalized TOL's - 1) Prerequisites/pre-conditions, 2) test steps/execution, 3) expected behavior
• Provide oversight on the testing efforts, update JIRA, and monitor progress towards the resolution of issues/defects identified in functional testing efforts

Skills, Experience and Requirements
Qualifications

• BS or MS in Engineering or Technical education or an equivalent combination of highly related experiences and education
• 6+ years of experience in the wireless industry, preferred in testing 4G/5G solutions
• Familiarity with SDN/NFV/Cloud and VNF MANO concepts
• Good understanding and experience in 4G RAN/5G O-RAN, 5G ORAN stack split functions (7-2x, RU, DI, CUCP, CUUP); Deep understanding of any components
• Good understanding and experience in 4G EPC/5GC core, CUPS, virtualized Network Functions; Deep understanding of any components
• Demonstrated experience with excellent problem-solving skills, to perform Root Cause Analysis to determine the main source of product issues and provide quick, elegant resolution
• Extensive experiences to operate traffic generators such as Keysight, Spirent products and other tools such as Wireshark and other node specific tools
• Experience with the Product & Requirements specifications, understanding of HLD, Test plan creation and execution. Reviews (RS, design, test plan)
• Good understanding and experiences in ORAN software architecture in the virtualized environment preferred. 3GPP RAN understanding is minimum requirement
• Extensive understanding of software systems/services running in the virtualized environments (Kubernetes, AWS) and ORAN functions
• Understanding and experiences with virtualized networks, orchestration, and automation across a comprehensive network architecture, deployed in the public/private cloud

Salary Range
Compensation: $87,500.00/Year - $125,000.00/Year
Benefits
From versatile health perks to new career opportunities, check out our benefits on our careers website .
Employment is contingent on Successful completion of a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test.