Applied R&D Engineer

Job Description

About Nokia SoftwareNokia Software is the leading solutions provider in the telecoms software market helping to drive large-scale service and network operations automation and digital business transformation in support of customer migrations to 5G. Built on Nokia s cloud-native Common Software Foundation (CSF), Nokia s multi-vendor and multi-network software solutions enrich and secure user experiences; automate operations and infrastructure; and enable new revenue streams and cost efficiencies.Job DescriptionNokia is a global leader in the technologies that connect people and things. With state-of-the-art software, hardware and services for any type of network, Nokia is uniquely positioned to help communication service providers, governments, and large enterprises deliver on the promise of 5G, the Cloud and the Internet of Things. Serving customers in over 100 countries, our research scientists and engineers continue to invent and accelerate new technologies that will increasingly transform the way people and things communicate and connect.Nokia is an equal opportunity employer that is commited to diversity and inclusion.At Nokia, employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.As a member NCC Global Services Delivery (GSD) Team, you will plan and execute NCC (a leading real-time rating and online charging application provides an operator with voice/data in 4G/5G network) feature implementation & validation in an end-to-end network level testing environment.This work will involve understanding overall customer network requirements, working with the systems engineers and developers to review feature requirements, developing the appropriate test plans, executing and analyzing test results to assure that feature and system requirements are met from customer network perspective. As a self-starter, you will have the opportunity to verify NCC functionality including DevOps automated test, call processing, database, system recovery, measurements and software release update in a fast-paced environment.The ideal candidate will have experience and demonstrated proficiency in these areas:

• Working knowledge of NCC feature functionality (or) any other 3 rd party OCS with ability to independently author, test and deliver high quality complex MOPs and functional tests
• Candidates should have a strong background in 4G/5G charging testing or development with good debugging and problem-solving skills and able to work independently and effectively under pressure
• Excellent analytical skill and ability to produce high quality tariff design, test plan, and test cases is essential
• Experienced with VNF/CNF onboarding and orchestrations is essential.
• Hands on experience on deployment, integration and configuration of NCC applications in complex customer networks.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot NCC issues and work across teams to provide resolutions
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve issues/problems on large complex deployments
• Ability to analyze tariff requirements and translate them into tariff designs
• Experienced with NCC platform or applications based on Nokia CSF platform is also a plus
• Excellent written and verbal English communications skills with experience reporting project status to an internal and customer audience

Must have competency and/or experience in these domain areas:

• Bachelors degree in CS, CE, EE (with strong software interest) with 4 to 8 years of experience in NCC or any other 3 rd party OCS systems.
• Experience in test automation including Robot, Cucumber etc.
• Experience in charging feature development/testing
• Networking protocols including IS-41/IS-826/ISUP, LDAP, TCP/IP, HTTP, Routing, and Firewalls is a plus.
• Diameter/HTTP2 protocol (Ro, Rx, Sd, Gx, Gy/Sy, N7, N28, N40) & Voice Protocol (CAPv2, v3) including simulation tools.
• Tariff design (or) Product catalogue creation for Prepaid/Postpaid OCS is a plus.
• Hands-on knowledge with cloud technologies & projects involving various Network Function Virtualization Infrastructures (NFVI) like Openstack and VMWare
• Knowledge on Kubernetes and docker containers is a plus.
• Commercial data bases, knowledge of Aerospike DB would be a key differentiator.

• Scripting knowledge in Python, Shell, Java Scripts/Angular JS, Bash, and Ansible.

We deploy products in Charging domain. The ideal candidate will have experience in the segment and knowledge of customer network uses of these products. Candidates will be required to interact and work with internal Nokia and external customer teams globally. The candidate must be comfortable taking ownership for complex issues and demonstrate excellent leadership in resolving issues while collaborating with deeply technical, subject matter experts.,

Keyskills :
qualityvalidationmarketingcustomer relationsnetwork function virtualizationtest casesproblem solvingcall processingrevenue streamssystem recovery