Broadband Test Engineer

350 per day 6-Month Contract Ipswich 3 Days Onsite

We're supporting a leading UK telecommunications organisation undergoing significant investment across its customer connectivity platform.

We're looking for an experienced Broadband Test Engineer to join a specialist engineering team responsible for investigating and resolving complex issues across Home Hubs, Wi-Fi platforms and broadband customer equipment.

This is a highly technical role focused on fault investigation, root cause analysis and defect resolution rather than traditional support.

• Home Hub, gateway or broadband CPE troubleshooting
• TCP/IP networking
• Wi-Fi technologies and RF fundamentals
• Packet capture analysis
• Linux environments
• Python scripting
• FTTP and broadband technologies
• IPv4 / IPv6
• Core dump and crash analysis
• Technical log analysis
• Root cause investigation

• Home Hubs
• Broadband CPE
• Digital Voice
• TR-069 / TR-369
• Linux
• Python
• Git
• GitLab
• Jira
• Wireshark

• Investigate complex customer-impacting technical issues
• Reproduce faults within laboratory environments
• Analyse logs, telemetry and packet captures
• Work with firmware development teams and suppliers
• Produce defect reports and technical evidence
• Validate fixes before live deployment
• Drive issues through to root cause resolution

• 350 per day
• Initial 6-month engagement
• Long-term programme potential
• Exposure to large-scale broadband platforms
• Hybrid working
• Ipswich based