Staff SW QA Engineer

Description
At Gigamon, our purpose is to protect the hybrid networks and data of the largest, most complex organizations on the planet. Certified as a Great Place to Work, we offer a deep observability pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived intelligence to cloud, security, and observability tools. This helps our customers to eliminate security blind spots, optimize network traffic, and dramatically reduce tool cost and complexity, enabling them to better secure and manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educational organizations.

As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Gigamon, you will play a critical role in validating our industry-leading network visibility fabric products. You will join a dynamic, cross-functional team focused on delivering high-quality solutions for complex networking environments. Your expertise in test automation and networking will directly contribute to our product quality goals, ensuring robust, scalable, and secure solutions for our global customers.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with functional test teams to develop and enhance testing strategies and approaches.
• Partner with development teams to design and implement automation-focused functional test strategies, including customer use case-centric and functional test cases.
• Design, develop, and fully automate functional, usability, and performance testing suites.
• Deliver high-quality test automation code and drive improvements in automation coverage.
• Identify and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and testing processes.

What You've Done

• Earned a BS in Computer Science or a related field.
• Accumulated 6+ years of hands-on experience in quality assurance, development, and/or automation within virtualization and networking domains.
• Demonstrated proficiency with test automation frameworks (such as Robot, Python) and tools (such as Cypress).
• Proven experience testing networking and security products.
• Gained expertise in various aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Acquired knowledge of network management concepts and protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, L2/L3, IPv4, IPv6, NAT, REST).
• Developed a strong understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL protocols, REST services, and hands-on experience testing them.
• Validated deliverables in virtualized environments and created test beds for functional testing.
• Communicated effectively in both verbal and written forms.

Nice To Have

• Technical knowledge of current virtualization software, tools, protocols, and standards (e.g., vCenter, VMware ESXi).
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch and HA-Proxy.
• Experience with Amazon and other cloud platforms.
• Exposure to network testing equipment such as Spirent, XENA, or TREX.

Who You Are

• Passionate about delivering high-quality products and solutions.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement.
• Thrive in collaborative, cross-functional team environments.
• Adaptable and eager to learn new technologies and methodologies.
• Driven to make a measurable impact on product quality and customer satisfaction.

As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law. For more information, please refer to Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

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