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AiraloQuality Assurance Engineer
Airalo seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer for a full-time, permanent, and fully remote position in the United Kingdom. Airalo operates as an eSIM store that provides…
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Airalo seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer for a full-time, permanent, and fully remote position in the United Kingdom. Airalo operates as an eSIM store that provides mobile data connectivity for travelers across more than 200 countries and regions. The organization consists of over 400 team members dispersed globally. In this role, the Quality Assurance Engineer will focus on testing campaigns, managing test hardware, creating automation pipelines, and analyzing telecom traces.…
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Airalo seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer for a full-time, permanent, and fully remote position in the United Kingdom. Airalo operates as an eSIM store that provides mobile data connectivity for travelers across more than 200 countries and regions. The organization consists of over 400 team members dispersed globally.
In this role, the Quality Assurance Engineer will focus on testing campaigns, managing test hardware, creating automation pipelines, and analyzing telecom traces. The daily work requires professional proficiency in English for both synchronous meetings and asynchronous communication.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain IREG-based test campaigns covering roaming partners, network updates, and service rollouts for Data, Voice, and SMS
- Oversee the test SIM and eSIM inventory, remote testing probes, campaign scheduling, execution, coverage tracking, and reporting
- Construct repeatable test pipelines and integrate regression and smoke suites into CI/CD workflows to generate release gates
- Establish performance indicators, baselines, and health thresholds while mapping synthetic test outcomes to production metrics and user journeys
- Plan and execute validation exercises for geo-redundancy, such as site failovers, path recoveries, session continuity, and data integrity
- Inspect protocol traces including PCAP, MAP/SS7, Diameter, GTP, and DNS to diagnose issues and assist root cause investigations
Requirements
- Prior professional background in telecom quality assurance, roaming validation, service assurance, or network testing
- Familiarity with LTE and EPC network architecture and session flows
- Proficiency in utilizing Wireshark for analysis
- Capability to write custom automation scripts using Python or similar languages
- Experience maintaining active regression suites within CI/CD pipelines
- Comfort communicating in English during meetings and through asynchronous channels
Qualifications
- Background at a mobile network operator, MVNO, IPX provider, or roaming hub including partner interoperability testing
- Experience handling SIM boxes or remote testing probes
- Familiarity with 5G roaming, VoLTE roaming, S8HR, and SMS over IP
- Knowledge of HSS/HLR, PCRF, and OCS functions related to roaming failures
- Familiarity with GSMA documentation and procedures like IR.21, IR.24, IR.35, IR.38, and IR.92
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