Broadband Test Engineer

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.

Required Experience

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

Technical Environment

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

Responsibilities

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

Package

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