QA Lead

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How You Will Contribute -
CIENA's Packet products portfolio comprises of a broad family of products for access and aggregation tiers of the network. Typically spanning from the Metro edge to the customer edge, these products provide Carrier Ethernet/MPLS/G.8032/TDM services in mobile backhaul, enterprise and residential domains. The Packet Software and Access R&D organization is responsible for delivering platform-independent Service Aware Operating System (SAOS), Access products and next-generation virtualized operating system to support Virtualized/SDN/NFV applications.

Functional engineer will be responsible for developing functional test strategies, test plans, test execution along with automation suite for platform-independent current and next-generation packet software encompassing the broad spectrum of CIENA's networking products. You will get an opportunity to innovate and influence new technologies that shape the future of Next Generation networks.

• Requires continuous research to ensure software features meet identified standards and product functional requirements.
• Lead, develop, execute, and automate functional test plans to verify product capabilities.
• Execution of test cases and reporting test results with artifacts using QC.
• Work closely with engineers across teams to ensure quality for the features.
• Coordinate activities with North America test and development teams on a need basis.
• FS and Test Plan / script Reviews: Able to host test plan reviews under guidance for assigned features. Attend and provide comments specific to the functional requirements for FS reviews for assigned features.
• Develop test cases beyond what is described in FS, including compliancy to commercial specs and RFCs, potential and likely interactions with other features, which may involve complex scenarios and topology.
• Lead, design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts, and build automation systems.
• Design, develop, and maintain software tools and features to assist in automated testing
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Design, develop, and maintain test libraries.
• Interface with development and test teams to understand testing requirements, and implement test scripts.
• Contribute to team deliverable through involvement in agile scrum development sprints.
• Interface with technical experts, feature owners, development teams, and test teams to drive test automation.
• Provide technical direction and guidance, as well as draft specifications, architect solutions, define timelines, advise on industry best practice and problems to be solved.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Position requires troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Understand Software Development Life Cycle.
• Able to think, lead key scenarios, write test cases, automate & execute test cases.
• Team oriented; strong inter-personal skills
• Demonstrated communications skills, both verbal and written, to effectively communicate/collaborate with remote QA and Development teams
• Strong commitment to product excellence and quality
• Adaptability: Able to manage feature and schedule churns
• Automation Experience preferrable in Python (4+ yrs).
• Experience with L2/L3 technologies/protocols.

MUST HAVES

• BE/B.Tech./M.Tech (EE/CS) Degree.
• 8-12 years of experience in datacom telecom and testing.
• Experience with traffic generators such as Ixia, Spirent is must.
• Expertise in Automation (4+ years)
• Extensive experience with Python/Tcl is a must (4+ yrs)
• Knowledge of code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN is plus.
• Knowledge of network design and deployment scenarios in Carrier/Metro Ethernet Space is plus.
• Hands-on experience with L2/L3 topologies is must.
• Fluency and experience in data communication systems, networking, Ethernet switches.
• Good Knowledge on L2/L3 Protocols like STP, VLAN, OSPF, MPLS, BGP, TCP/IP, Ethernet, 802.1Q, VLAN, L2VPN, L3VPN, G.8032, QoS, BFD, SAT, TWAMP, Segment Routing etc.

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