Automation Engineer - SONiC Platform

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Create, maintain, and execute test plans.

- Test Automation Development for Layer2/Layer3 testing on SONiC Platform.

- Understand and review product requirement documents and design documents and work closely with the Software Engineering team during product development in a fast paced environment.

- Maintain test beds for day-to-day activities and to support recreating customer scenarios for handling escalations.

- Troubleshoot and debug customer-reported issues in a timely manner when necessary.

- Assist in identifying and scoping testing efforts for new features, regression, updating status and tracking tasks.

- Work closely with the rest of the QA to ensure top-notch product quality.

- Work with cross functional teams to build manual/automated test suites.

Desired Experience :

- BS/BE/B-Tech or MS/ME/M-Tech degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electronics.

- 5-10 years of manual and automation test experience (Layer2/Layer3) as a QA Engineer.

- Expertise in scripting languages.

- Experience with automation test framework/tools.

- Experience with Traffic Generation tools like Ixia, Spirent.

- Experience with SONiC is a plus.

- Good understanding of Networking concepts and protocols such as Layer2, Layer3, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, RIP, SNMP etc.

- Familiarity with Docker deployment technologies is a plus.

- Excellent analytical skills, troubleshooting/debugging skills, problem diagnosis, creative problem solving and a good eye for detail.

- Excellent collaboration and communication (verbal and written) skills.

- Ability to be flexible and productive in a fast-paced environment with geographically-distributed teams.

- Have a good positive outlook and are always willing to challenge themselves in their day to day undertaking.

- Ability to work effectively as an individual and within small/large group.

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