Software QA & Automation Specialist

We are looking for a Software QA & Automation Specialists with 8+ years of experience to drive the end-to-end quality engineering strategy for the Core Management System functional areas. You will lead the design, test and automation of functional and non-functional validations and quality initiatives across cloud-native, microservices-based solutions, ensuring the delivery of scalable, resilient, and high-quality products. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with leadership capabilities, driving modern automation practices, mentoring teams, and championing a quality-first culture. Experience with CI/CD, observability, distributed systems, and emerging AI-powered automation frameworks is highly desirable. Join Nokia’s Autonomous Networks engineering team building a next-generation Core Network Management System that helps telecom operators proactively prevent network failures and significantly reduce Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR). Our cloud-native platform ingests and processes massive-scale telemetry, performance, fault, configuration, and operational data from thousands of network functions. Leveraging Kubernetes, microservices, data lake architecture, AI/ML-driven analytics, automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA), anomaly detection, and predictive insights, the platform enables real-time monitoring, diagnosis, troubleshooting, and remediation recommendations. The system is built using modern technologies including Golang, OpenShift, OpenTelemetry, React based UI, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, Kafka, and Agentic AI frameworks to build scalable, intelligent, and highly resilient telecom solutions. You have: Engineering Degree with 8+ years of experience with experience in test automation, quality engineering, and validation of cloud-native applications, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Microservices, and Distributed Systems. Expertise in designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks for functional, integration, system, API, performance, reliability, and end-to-end testing. Hands-on experience validating large-scale data ingestion, ETL, streaming, and event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, and MariaDB. Strong knowledge of Observability and Telemetry platforms, including validation of OpenTelemetry, OTLP, PromQL/VMQL, metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring workflows. Understanding of Telecom Network Management, SNMP, 3GPP standards, and Network Function monitoring with the ability to validate fault, performance, configuration, and operational workflows. Nice to have: Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, test automation pipelines, containerised deployments, and quality gates using tools such as Jenkins, Helm, and Kubernetes. Experience driving non-functional testing including scalability, performance, resiliency, reliability, failover, and high-availability validation in distributed environments. Candidates with prior Scrum Master experience are preferred.