Technical Lead

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About This Opportunity

This is a position at Ericsson R&D, where you will work with a team of highly motivated engineers to deliver Ericssons world-leading telecom application servers. We are building a team to consolidate our leadership in this marketplace and help drive the next-generation Cloud Native product. These telecom applications are part of Ericssons Cloud Communication portfolio.

Within our product development units, Agile methodology and philosophy are practiced in spirit. You will play a crucial role as the gatekeeper between Development and QA, ensuring feature delivery is reliable, automated, and integrated with platform components.

What You Will Do

• Platform & ADP Integration: Integrate ADP (Application Development Platform) components into the overall solution and ensure they work seamlessly with new feature deliveries.
• CI/CD Automation: Ensure test cases run successfully in Jenkins and Spinnaker pipelines, while continuously improving automation workflows for efficiency and reliability.
• Test Automation Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks, ensuring high coverage for functional, performance, and non-functional requirements.
• Product Use-Cases in Platform Context: Validate product use-cases end-to-end in the context of the platform, ensuring interoperability and performance across components.
• Cloud & Virtualization Testing: Drive feature validation and testing in cloud-native environments (Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, OpenStack) with a focus on scalability, resilience, and deployment automation.
• Analysis & Troubleshooting: Analyze test failures, identify root causes, and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues and drive bug fixes.
• Release Readiness: Be accountable for feature quality and maintenance, including test analysis, automation, integration/release validation, and customer deliverables.
• Innovation & Learning: Continuously experiment, learn, and adopt new cloud and automation technologies to strengthen platform and product quality.
• Customer Focus: Support customers by troubleshooting complex product issues in live or pre-production environments.
  
  

• Strong knowledge of UNIX/Linux, Java, Python, Shell scripting, and test automation practices.
• Hands-on knowledge of virtualization and cloud technologies (Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, OpenStack).
• Hands-on experience in test frameworks and tools such as JCAT, DTG, Cucumber, JMeter, LoadRunner.
• Deep understanding of software system integration, functional testing, and performance testing.
• Strong knowledge of network protocols (IP, TCP, HTTP, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Mason2) and their integration with test automation.
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, NoSQL).
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative mindset, customer focus, and excellent written/verbal communication.
• Experience in running Scrum Activities.
  
  

• Exposure to platform components in cloud-native environments such as FCAPS/OAM, Security, Logging, Certificate Management, and High Availability/Data Redundancy.
• Additional experience in non-functional / characteristics testing (resiliency, failover, high availability).
  
  

• Experience: 5–10 years of overall software test experience, with at least 2 years on a virtualized network API or telecom carrier-grade product.
• Education: B.Tech in CS/EC/EE or related studies (M.Tech is a plus).