Test Lead With Openshift

Position: Senior Test Lead with OpenShift

Location: Naperville, IL ***Remote***

Duration: 1 Year

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities-

1. Understand customer use cases, deployment topology, acceptance criteria, release scope, and operational constraints.

2. Integrate software builds with dependent network functions, cloud platforms, tools, and external interfaces.

3. Create and execute end-to-end, feature, regression, interoperability, upgrade, scale, and failure-recovery testing.

4. Reproduce customer issues, collect logs and traces, isolate faults, and coordinate corrective actions with engineering teams.

5. Track defects from discovery through triage, fix validation, closure, and customer communication. 6. Support onsite activities, including environment readiness, joint debugging, demonstrations, acceptance testing, and release cutover.

7. Automate repetitive test flows, health checks, data collection, and results reporting.

8. Maintain test plans, topology documents, runbooks, known-issue lists, dashboards, and daily/weekly status reports.

Skill Requirements-

Experience in Packet Core telecom integration, system testing, or customer validation.

Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, telecom protocols, log analysis, and troubleshooting.

Ability to work across multiple network functions, interfaces, cloud layers, and dependent systems.

Experience with test planning, defect management, release validation, and customer-facing technical communication.

Automation experience using Python, Shell, Robot Framework, or equivalent tools.

Ability to collaborate effectively in an onsite-offshore delivery model and handle priority technical issues.

Must-Have Skills-

Telecom

5G Network Deployment

Evolved Packet Core (EPC)

Good-to-Have Skills-

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Kubernetes

Other Requirements-

Knowledge of Mobile Core, IMS, Packet Core, orchestration, or cloud-native network functions (CNFs).

Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, public cloud, traffic generators, protocol analyzers, and observability platforms.

Prior experience in telecom customer labs, production trials, or acceptance