Senior Switch

In Nokia's Network Infrastructure division, we "make" the internet.  Every aspect of hardware & software that provides worldwide internet access across the globe is part of our portefolio. 
Here in Antwerp, our group is focusing on Fixed Broadband Access, more specifically Fiber-to-the-spot deployments : either homes, institutions, factories, datacenters,...  We create the electronics & SW solution to provide a fiber connection anywhere.

Our SW R&D group works on the core of the system : the actual switch/router capabilities that route internet traffic, provide quality-of-service, support different networking protocols. We work on all layers, from very embedded code on our own processor-architecture, all the way up to linux application development.  
Our dev & test engineers work with virtualization, on real hardware from a single "blade" to full deployments of an access network in our lab.

We are looking for talented test & quality assurance engineers that like to be working in the lab, building networks, configuring switches, access network devices in complex topologies & then test out the different switch, router & quality of service features that our product offers.   Setting up differnt types of forwarding modes, tunnels or protocol flows. Then sending gigabits of traffic, analyzing network behavior such as protocol performance, latency, priority-handling,...   and understand how a system should behave, find (and fix) bugs as well as help defining features to improve our product. 

You would be working hands on in labs as well as develop complex automated tests in python & robot-framework, combined with automation tooling (test-framework, CI server automation, debug-tooling development) needed to test a network to its fullest in the most efficient way.

NIFN2026
 

• build network topologies in the lab
• configurating & bringup of setups with existing & new features
• follow regression testing to keep our SW baseline flawless
• manual & automated testing of switch/routing & QoS features for the Fiber Access Network
• automation scripting of testcases
• Finding issues & discussing them with development engineers, reproduction & pinpointing of root-causes
• [ delve into the C++ code yourself to solve the bugs yourself]
• tooling development for testcases : test framework development, virtualization frameworks, CI server automation, debug-tool development,... 
• Be a network specialist that does not simply test a feature but defines features, becomes a guru on how networks behave & should behave from a system point of view. 

Technical: 

• strong python knowledge is a must. (This will be tested in job interview)
• experience with building setups based on either ethernet switches or actual access networks 
• experience with network protocols & testing them
• experience with traffic generators
• nice : Experience with robot framework
• nice : Experience with eg. Jenkins scripting, python (or other languages) tool development
• nice : experience with building / maintaining test-frameworks
• nice : experience/knowledge of C++ SW development
• nice : experience with AI-driven & agentic code development (eg. cursor, copilot,...)
   

Non-technical :

• A team player who values collaboration, knowledge sharing, and working toward common goal
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to engage in technical discussions.  Somebody that can go to a whiteboard & start discussing with passion about test-frameworks, ways of working, topologies, system behavior,... 
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to take ownership of medium/high-complexity features.

Education:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Electronics, or equivalent practical experience.  
• PhD in Computer Science, Telecommunications

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