Sr. Staff SW QA Engineer

• Provide technical expertise for the system design, operation and testability of our products with special focus on visibility fabric products.
• Work closely with the Functional/System test teams in developing and improving overall testing approach and strategy
• Work with team for Functional/System testing strategy with focus on automation including but not limited to customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
• Design, develop and completely automating Functional, Performance, Scale and Stress Testing suites.
• Deliver test automation code and help in driving improvements to the automation coverage.
• Identifying, leveraging, and successfully evangelizing opportunities to improve engineering productivity.
• Work closely with the functional/system test teams in developing and improving overall testing approach and strategy

• BS in CS or related field
• 8+ years of hands-on quality, development and/or automation experience in virtualization and networking space
• Proficient at test automation and scripting skills (Python or some scripting language)
• Hand-on experience in any one of the test automation frameworks (Robot, PyTest, Python) and
• Working knowledge of current virtualization software, tools, protocols, and standards, including vCenter, VMware ESXi/NSX-T, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Working knowledge of any public/private cloud environment: Amazon EC2, Azure, OpenStack / other cloud platforms
• Demonstrated experience in testing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems including software upgrade, distributed control, and redundancy.
• Knowledge of network management concepts and basic protocols (e. g. TCP/IP, L2/L3 protocols, IPv4, IPv6, REST)
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP layer, HTTP/HTTPS protocols, REST services and hands on experience on testing them.
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Be self-directed, highly motivated, and organized with strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, and an ability to work on multiple projects and function in a team environment.
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Must have a true passion for delivering quality products

• Experience with network testing equipment such as Spirent, Avalanche, TREX
• Experience working with GUI based test automation tools (Selenium, Protractor)
• Experience in security domain and on vulnerability assessment is an added advantage.
• Experience with Security / Certifications testing in Cloud environment
• Good knowledge and protocol testing experience of application protocols like FTP, DNS, HTTP, SSL etc.

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