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Validation Engineer â Private 5G Networks
Position Summary
We are seeking a Validation Engineer to test and verify private 5G network solutions for industrial and enterprise customers. This role develops and executes end-to-end test plans across radio access, core, transport, cloud management, devices, and customer IT/OT systems. The engineer will validate network performance, security, reliability, and readiness for customer acceptance.
Key Responsibilities
We are seeking a Validation Engineer to test and verify private 5G network solutions for industrial and enterprise customers. This role develops and executes end-to-end test plans across radio access, core, transport, cloud management, devices, and customer IT/OT systems. The engineer will validate network performance, security, reliability, and readiness for customer acceptance.
Key Responsibilities
- Review solution designs, network topology, and customer requirements to define test plans and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and execute integration, regression, performance, scalability, and failover tests for new deployments, upgrades, migrations, and expansions.
- Validate end-to-end scenarios such as device onboarding, mobility, network segmentation, QoS, firmware updates, and application connectivity.
- Analyze test results, logs, alarms, and network data to isolate issues and work with engineering teams on resolution.
- Build automated test suites and scripts using Python, shell, or similar tools; integrate testing into CI pipelines where applicable.
- Verify latency, throughput, coverage, reliability, and recovery against the needs of business-critical applications.
- Test authentication, encryption, segmentation, and other security requirements.
- Document test procedures, configurations, results, defects, and evidence for internal and customer acceptance.
- Collaborate with solution architects, network engineers, project managers, and operations teams to support deployment and handover.
- Provide technical support during early-life and stabilization periods.
- Experience testing or integrating 4G/5G networks, including RAN and core network fundamentals.
- Understanding of private 5G architecture and its integration with enterprise LAN, data center, security, and IT/OT environments.
- Strong scripting and test automation skills, preferably with Python and shell.
- Experience designing end-to-end test scenarios and analyzing network performance data.
- Ability to troubleshoot across network, device, application, and management layers.
- Familiarity with high-availability testing, including redundancy, failover, and recovery.
- Clear technical documentation and communication skills.
- Ericsson Enterprise Private 5G (EP5G) or Enterprise 5G portfolio experience.
- Testing industrial devices such as routers, scanners, sensors, tablets, AGVs, or autonomous vehicles.
- Experience with private network deployments in manufacturing, logistics, mining, ports, utilities, or airports.
- Familiarity with management portals, remote diagnostics, CI pipelines, and device certification or ecosystem testing.
About Broadstaff
Broadstaff is a national staffing firm specialized in providing workforce solutions for telecommunications and information technology. Broadstaff provides flexible staffing support for all areas of network deployments including planning, analysis, design, implementation, construction, operations and maintenance. Our suite of flexible staffing solutions include contract, contract-to-hire, direct-hire, recruitment-process-outsourcing (RPO), and payrolling services. Founded by Carrie Charles in 2015, Broadstaff, LLC is proud to be a diverse supplier and holds active certifications as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE), Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), and Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE).