Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

We are looking for software engineers with a QE focus who can work in a fast paced environment that is at the cutting edge of WAN edge & Cloud networking. You will fit into this role if you have an eye for delivering high quality, high performance & scalable software driven by automation. The ability to take a customer centric, big picture approach to QE will be an added advantage. In this role you will find yourself working at all levels of the QE process starting from crafting feature specific test cases to customer centric system level tests. What you will be doing Understand the product/feature requirement, review the design and write test plans that suits the customer use cases Responsible to own a feature end to end - starting from testing, automation, script error free run in regression and customer issues handling around that Thorough understanding of the product features and building the ability to debug the customer issues and suggest/implement the workarounds if applicable Need to perform different types of testing that includes functional, system, performance and scale tests Need to create the distributed complex test setups in various cloud platforms and hypervisors based on the requirement Work closely with cross functional teams at various stages of product development to meet the feature deliverables in a release Required skills and experience Minimum 8 years of experience and should have the mix of product testing and automation expertise Strong expertise in L2/L3 networking concepts, routing protocols, VPN, IPSec and WAN architecture Strong expertise SDWAN product/feature functionalities Strong experience in performance/scale and system testing Strong expertise with at least one common endpoint platform (Windows, iOS, Android OS/X) Windows/Mac OS system/server side experience with strong knowledge to bring up test environments, testing and troubleshooting Strong expertise in python programming language and should be able to do automation driven testing Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes environments Experience with scalable cloud native multi-tenant architectures Familiarity with one of the major server virtualisation products (ESXi, KVM) & IaaS platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) Familiarity with various functional test tools, packet crafting/replaying and security test tools System/server side experience for troubleshooting and strong knowledge of Linux. Good working knowledge in CI/CD deployment in public clouds Technical know-how of source code systems like Github Desired Technical Skills Experience in designing test framework Experience in front-end web UI automation tools like selenium, cypress Experience with traffic generator tools like Spirent and Ixia Experience with web programming and HTTP based APIs (REST or GraphQL) Additional Skills Eagerness to learn new products and technologies Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate in an open, transparent and consistent manner with team and co-workers. Determined and ever ready to roll up sleeves to respond to the needs of customers proactively and promptly. Achievement oriented and willing to take responsibility for their own actions. Believe in innovation and out-of-the box thinking to foster originality of ideas Education BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred