Wireless QA Engineer (WiFi 6 / WiFi 7 Testing)
SonicWall
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Engineering
Posted 12 hours ago
Job Description
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
We are looking for a Wireless QA Engineer with 3–5 years of experience in WiFi 6 (802.11ax) and WiFi 7 (802.11be) tesIng. The ideal candidate should have strong experIse in wireless networking, test planning, automaIon, and performance validaIon. The candidate should possess hands-on programming/automaIon skills and experience in wireless performance, capacity, and scalability tesIng using VeriWave or equivalent traffic generaIon tools.
Key Responsibilies
- Design, develop, and execute test plans and test cases for WiFi 6 and WiFi 7
- Perform funcIonal, regression, interoperability, performance, scalability, stress, and stability tesIng of enterprise wireless
- Validate wireless features such as WPA2/WPA3, 802.1X authenIcaIon, RADIUS, VLANs, QoS, Mesh, OFDMA, MU-MIMO, BSS Coloring, MulI-Link OperaIon (MLO), and seamless
- Execute wireless performance, throughput, capacity, roaming, and scalability tesIng using VeriWave (or equivalent tools such as Spirent/Ixia).
- Develop, maintain, and enhance automaIon frameworks and test scripts using Python or similar programming
- Analyze packet captures using Wireshark and debug wireless protocol and networking
- Collaborate with Development, Product Management, and Support teams to reproduce, analyze, and resolve product
- ParIcipate in CI/CD-based test automaIon and conInuously improve test coverage and
Required Skills
- 3–5 years of experience in Wireless QA/TesIng.
- Strong understanding of WiFi 6 (802.11ax) and WiFi 7 (802.11be) technologies and IEEE 11 standards.
- Good knowledge of enterprise wireless networking, including WPA2/WPA3, 1X, RADIUS, DHCP, DNS, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, and QoS.
- Hands-on experience in automa,on and programming using Python (preferred) or other scripIng
- Experience in wireless performance and scalability tes,ng using VeriWave, including throughput, latency, roaming, and capacity validaIon.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
- Experience with Wireshark for packet capture and protocol
- Familiarity with Linux environments and shell
- Experience with defect tracking and test management tools such as
- Strong analyIcal, debugging, problem-solving, and communicaIon
Preferred Skills
- Experience with enterprise wireless Access Points and Wireless
- Familiarity with automaIon frameworks such as PyTest, Robot Framework, or
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab
- Knowledge of REST APIs and network
- Exposure to traffic generators such as Spirent TestCenter, Ixia, or OctoScope is an added
- Knowledge of Firewall and Network Security concepts is
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electronics, InformaIon Science, TelecommunicaIons, or a related engineering
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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.
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