Network Quality Assurance Specialist
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Network Quality Assurance Specialist. As a key member of our Solution Test group, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality of our products through system testing of large, complex, and feature-rich, end-to-end environments.
The successful candidate will have extensive experience working on complex end-to-end environments, including design and hands-on tasks (deployments, implementation, migration…). A strong background in layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding, IP multicast, OSPF, BGP, VxLAN, MPLS, EVPN, ECMP, VRRP, STP, RSTP, MST, PVST+, Ethernet link aggregation, LACP, etc. is also essential.
Key Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with various stakeholders from development, sales, and other engineering teams to understand testing requirements and expectations;
• Plan the building of, or add to the existing network topology, as required to test use cases;
• Configure hardware, features, traffic generators, and other tools to emulate the required environment;
• Execute exhaustive test plans, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance, and realistic scale based on real-life scenarios;
• Troubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings and work with the development team on reproduction, root cause analysis, fix verification, and bug/limitation documentation;
• Communicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design, implementation, and performance improvements;
• Interact with the sales team and customers to answer questions, handle ad-hoc requests, and run small demos;
• Collaborate with peers to cross-train on new technologies and improve team effectiveness;
• Help the TAC team with escalation reproduction efforts when needed;
• Help the POC team with demo efforts when needed;
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in telecommunications, computer engineering, computer networking;
• At least 10 years of experience working on complex end-to-end environments, including design and hands-on tasks (deployments, implementation, migration…);
• Experience in testing preferred but not required;
• Strong written and oral communication skills;
• Strong drive to improve quality and curiosity to learn new technologies;
• Ability to operate with a high degree of independence, driven by an internal desire to succeed at the challenge of breaking our products;
• ACE L4, CCIE or JNCIE level certification is a plus but not required.