Product verification & testing for Data Center routing & switching platforms - Major Enterprise Networking equipment provider
Responsibilities
Work closely with development engineering, product management, and customer solution engineering team to test and validate features functionality and system test profiles for data center networks, network security and routing technologies.
Develop test strategy, test topology and test plan to validate the features end-to-end at scale with network security considerations
Understand various customer deployments and solutions across data center networks, security, routing and switching and validate customer profiles
Execute test cases and validate the solution end-to-end and document the test results on performance, scale and security
Collaborate with development team to translate software requirements into high-quality test automation suites
Debug and troubleshoot complex issues and work closely with the engineering team on the failures and validate the fixes
Develop automation for the end-to-end solution validation and integrate the automation for seamless validation
Review customer deployments and customer-found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage
Involve in customer deployments and customer escalations and help the customers to deploy Client's solutions in the customer environment
Skills
Must have
Minimum of B.S./B.E./B.Tech in CS/EE/ECE/IT
8+ years of relevant industry experience in Networking/Telecom
Embedded/Network Management with hands-on experience in functional, system test and automation
Proven technical knowledge and experience in testing Data Center Network platforms
Proven knowledge and hands-on experience in test plan development and validating scalable data center network and network security solutions
Experience in planning and building large-scale system test topologies with detailed knowledge of test automation tools and software test tools (Spirent, IXIA) and virtualization platforms such as VMware (vCenter, NSX), OpenStack and Linux OS variants such as Ubuntu, CentOS, KVM
Hands-on experience in developing test automation suites using Python or a similar scripting language
Experience in performance, scale and convergence testing and analyzing performance-related issues and improving the performance and convergence at system level
Ability to develop and publish solution validation document and test reports
Robust verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization: Product Management, Technical Marketing, Field Sales, Documentation and Development Team
Highly motivated and self-driven
Able to collaborate cross-functionally to meet challenging goals