Routing/IP Platform Test Engineer 1A

3 weeks ago

Remote, India Ciena Full time

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individualâs passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. Weâre a technology company that leads with our humanityâdriving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

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Your Role

You will be taking care for generation, co-ordination and execution of test plans for the Converged Packet Optical product lines with the objective of ensuring the release required software and hardware implementation meet customer requirement, approval and certification criteria.   You will also be responsible for becoming the local domain expert and related standards development and interpretation of customer requirements specifications in order to provide guidelines to Corporate R&D members for feature implementations.

Your Responsibilities

  • Take test delivery ownership for a feature or a group of features.  Understanding end-to-end feature requirements at individual and architecture level.  In depth knowledge of the hardware and  protocols involved, their dependencies and their role within the product architecture. 
  • Detailed understanding of the impact of requirements across various releases.  Confidence to tackle the architects and question every requirement for their individual validity and completeness towards the result. 
  • Ownership of potential internal/external customer prototype demonstration when opportunity furnish.  Assist in standardization and interoperability lab testing.
  • Provide support for Senior design Engineers through collecting log files, software upgrades, execution of the assigned test cases.
  • Develop, complete and automate test plans to validate customer use-cases and product capabilities and Requirements
  • Execution of manual and automation end-to-end feature testing.  Due diligence to make sure the test cases cover the complete landscape of feature being tested. 
  • Ensure test environment sufficiency of traffic generators, cards, and system set up and making sure it is ready for completion of the work.  Deliver the manual and automation test results on time within given quality parameters. 
  • Follow through the test results with design groups to reproduce and debug.  Assist PV groups towards post LA execution issues towards smooth release of the feature.
  • Coordinate activities across test and development teams across sites on a need basis
  • Develop customer result requirement use cases.  Cooperate with PLM, architects and release managers to rule out uncertainties and ambiguities in requirements.  Understand the landscape of competitive usage of a feature and incorporate as a deliverable in present release or influence it to be part of future releases. 
  • Chip in to IETF and company's intellectual properties (Patents, White papers).  MonSupervisedustry standards and data application trends & alert senior management of potential roadblocks in product development


General Activities

  • Proficient in troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Team oriented; strong interpersonal skills and ability to understand customersâ needs, expectations and perspective   
  • Ability to multitask on multiple projects
  • Strong in both written and verbal communication
  • Strong dedication to product excellence and quality
  • Contributes and take lead role on a project team involved in the release and test of software. 
  • Quick in understanding of sophisticated concepts/methodology and able to apply them to the current project for improvement
  • Conducts knowledge sharing sessions: Moderate to sophisticated topics that will help team in understanding and performing their assigned tasks better.


Collaboration with stakeholders

  • Work closely with team members with ownership of your area as well as with a view of overall project deliveryâ¢
  • Collaborate with Architects and design owners for understanding the requirements and validating the test coverage
  • Collaborate with design team on follow up and closure on SW issues
  • Share regular status updates with management and highlight any challenges/risks in time



Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study
  • Hands on Experience of L2/L3 Network equipment in different testing aspects: Functional, System, Performance and Scale
  • Hands-on experience in:
    • L2/L3 Technologies: MPLS Technologies (RSVP-TE, FRR, LDP, BFD), Routing Protocols(ISIS, OSPF, BGP, Segment Routing), IPVPN, Carrier Ethernet (Bridging/switching, LAG, VLAN, EOAM/CFM),
    • L2/L3 traffic generators/analyzers: IXIA (IxNetwork), Spirent
    • Automation Development in Python
  • Experience working in Agile and Waterfall models of development
  • Experience in both manual and automated testing environments

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