Celona is seeking seasoned QA Engineer – RAN who would help us ensure that Celona’s enterprise 5G LAN solutions meets both internal and our customers’ quality expectations. Candidates must possess initiative, adaptability, problem solving skills, and a deep understanding of QA processes. Candidates must be comfortable dealing with ambiguity in an environment where speed and scale is our direction. Ability to self-direct, work within constraints and be a strong team player 

This role is based onsite in Bangalore India 

Responsibilities: 

• Candidate will be responsible for feature, system validation, debugging, log and performance analysis on eNB, gNB and UE 
• Work with software development engineers, field support engineers, product managers, and test engineers to analyze customer requirements and use cases, gather technical details, and comprehensively develop test plans and test cases 
• Build and maintain system testbeds and related network infrastructure 
• Provide clearly documented bug reports that gives a detailed characterization of the conditions the bug is triggered, the behavior that results and the ultimate impact on the end users/customers 

Ideal Skillsets and Experience: 

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field or equivalent experience 
• 10+ years of experience in QA methodologies 
• 7+ years of related experience working on LTE/5G RAN technologies 
• Deep experience in testing 3GPP Wireless protocols and standards with a focus on LTE & 5G protocols (PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, etc) 
• Solid understanding of LTE/5G Mobility, timing, SON, OAM, performance, soak and KPIs validation 
• Hands-on experience with building end to end test setups for OTA and cabled testing 
• Experience with test tools and debugging like QXDM, Wireshark, UE simulators (Amarisoft, Keysight UESim) 
• Understanding of overall 5G/4G Architecture including UE, RAN, Core and ability to triage defects 
• Automation experience with Python is desired 

About Celona: 

Founded in 2019, privately held Celona is a pioneer and leader in the emerging market of enterprise private 5G networks. With private wireless technology, enterprises for the first time are able to provide wire-like reliability for mission-critical applications across their wireless infrastructure, facilitating a step-change productivity capability. Celona is deployed in production networks of some of the world’s leading G2000 global brands including BP, Lyondell and BMW. 

Celona is based in Campbell, California and has developed the first and still the only dedicated end-to-end private 5G solution for the enterprise. Celona private 5G LAN is designed to deploy as easily as Wi-Fi whilst integrating with the existing IP infrastructure with customer data always secured within the enterprise’s existing security boundaries. 

Celona has raised more than $100M to date and is backed by tier-1 VCs including Lightspeed, Norwest, NTT, Cervin and Qualcomm.