Staff QA Engineer – WiFi

As a Staff QA Engineer for WiFi at Plume, you define and drive end-to-end QA and test strategies for core broadband, WiFi, and cloud-based solutions. You lead testing across firmware, cloud services, APIs, microservices, and network components, serving as a technical quality leader for the Core Engineering organization. This is an in-office role based in our Hyderabad, India location.

What you'll do

• Define and drive end-to-end QA and test strategies for core broadband, WiFi, and cloud-based solutions
• Lead testing across firmware, cloud services, APIs, microservices, and network components
• Design and execute comprehensive functional, integration, system, regression, performance, scalability, and reliability testing
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and test infrastructure to improve test coverage and release confidence
• Identify critical quality risks and establish appropriate test plans, quality gates, and release criteria
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, architects, product managers, and other QA teams to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle
• Perform root-cause analysis of complex issues across distributed systems and drive defects to resolution
• Mentor QA engineers and contribute to engineering best practices, automation standards, and quality processes
• Provide technical leadership in improving testability, observability, CI/CD integration, and continuous quality engineering
• Participate in architecture and design discussions, proactively identifying potential quality and reliability risks
• Drive continuous improvements in test automation, defect prevention, test efficiency, and overall product quality
• Operate with a high degree of ownership and independently drive complex, cross-functional quality initiatives
• Influence engineering teams to adopt a quality-by-design and automation-first mindset
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for complex quality and reliability challenges

What you bring

• 12+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, with 5+ years leading QA for embedded systems, broadband, networking, WiFi, or cloud-based platforms
• Strong expertise in defining end-to-end test strategies across firmware, cloud services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience in test automation using Python, Java, C++, or similar languages, with modern automation frameworks
• Experience in functional, integration, regression, performance, scalability, and reliability testing
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, IPv4/IPv6, WiFi, and broadband gateway architectures
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, test automation infrastructure, and quality engineering best practices
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across firmware, cloud, and networking environments
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional quality initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive automation-first and quality-by-design practices
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience with broadband, WiFi, or CPE platforms
• Familiarity with RDK-B, OpenSync, PrplOS, Embedded Linux, or similar platforms
• Experience testing cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Broadband Forum standards such as TR-069, TR-181, and TR-369 (USP)
• Experience with performance, reliability, and security testing, along with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK
• ISTQB or equivalent QA certification

About Plume

Plume is the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for ISPs and their subscribers. The company partners with over 400 ISP customers, including some of the world's largest such as Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM. Plume delivers services to over 60 million locations globally and has managed over 3 billion devices on its platform using WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create the future of connected spaces.