Mckinsol Consulting - Mountain View, CA
posted 8 days ago
Full-time
Mountain View, CA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The WiFi Test Engineer role focuses on performance testing of WiFi devices, requiring expertise in various testing equipment and RF concepts. The engineer will be responsible for conducting tests, analyzing performance metrics, and documenting results to support product development and quality assurance.
Responsibilities
- Conduct WiFi performance testing using Octoscope, Candela, or Veriwave test equipment.
- Generate TPut/KPI/other performance metrics and statistics for the devices being tested.
- Compile test reports and assist in preparing presentations based on test results.
- Write shell scripts to validate CPE devices on the network.
- Customize scripts and run experiments per vendor specifications, including ports, WiFi radios, and SSID packets.
Requirements
- Prior experience with WiFi performance testing is required.
- Familiarity with Octoscope, Candela, or Veriwave test equipment is a must.
- Good knowledge of RF concepts, including splitters, attenuators, antennas, and RF shielded boxes.
- Familiarity with lab test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and oscilloscopes is required.
- Good knowledge of TCP-IP and L2 networking/switches, as well as Wireshark debugging tools is required.
- Familiarity with L3 networking/routers is a plus.
- Good knowledge of device management protocols like TR-069 is required.
- Ability to write shell scripts for validating CPE devices is required.
- Experience with debugging tools and root-cause analysis is required.
- Good problem-solving skills are essential.
Nice-to-haves
- Background in software automation using tools like Python and Expect is a plus.
