Lead Test & Automation Engineer - L2/L3 Networking Protocols

Project description

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 Extreme Networks solutions in the customer environment

Skills

Must have

Minimum of B.S./B.E./B.Tech in CS/EE/ECE

4 to 12 years of relevant industry experience in Networking/Telecom

Embedded/Network Management with hands-on experience in functional, system test and automation o Proven technical knowledge and experience in Data Center Network

IP Fabric, VxLAN EVPN, Network Virtualization Framework o Proven technical knowledge and experience in Network Security, and Routing Protocols (OSPF, ISIS BGP, Multicast) o Proven knowledge and hands-on experience in test plan development and validating scalable data center network and network security solutions o Experience in planning and building large scaled 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 o Hands-on experience in developing test automation suites using Python or a similar scripting language o Experience in performance, scale and convergence testing and analyzing performance related issues and improving the performance and convergence at system level o Ability to develop and publish solution validation document and test reports o Strong 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 o Highly motivated and self-driven o Able to collaborate cross-functionally to meet challenging goals