Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Work closely with development engineering, product management, and customer solution engineering team to test and validate features functionality and system test profiles for virtualization 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 UI, API ( REST) and end to end
- Review customer deployments and customer found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage
Experience
strong experience in functional, system test and automation
Special Skills
- Hands-on experience in developing test automation suites using Python (Pytest, UnitTest)
- Knowledge of HTTP protocols
- Experience with REST API testing using tools like Postman, Python request library
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
- Technical knowledge and experience on Network Virtualization
- Technical knowledge and experience on Network Security, TCP/IP and Routing and Switching Protocols
- Knowledge and hands-on experience in test plan development
- Experience in planning and building large scale system test topologies with knowledge of test automation tools and software test tools and virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXi & KVM, and Linux OS variants such as Debian, CentOS
- 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
- 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
- Highly motivated and self-driven
- Able to collaborate cross functionally to meet challenging goals
Certifications
CCNP/similar or CCNP level of knowledge