Staff SW QA Engineer

Description
Description
Gigamon is looking for a seasoned quality assurance engineer who will be responsible for validating Gigamon's network visibility fabric product. As part of a growing, dynamic team, the candidate will thrive in a cross-functional team environment and will contribute towards test and automation efforts for achieving project quality goals.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the functional test teams in developing and improving overall testing approach and strategy.
• Work with team for system testing strategy with focus on automation including but not limited to customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
• Design, develop and completely automating Functional, Usability, Performance, Scaling and Stress Testing suites.
• Deliver test automation code and help in driving improvements to our automation coverage.
• Identifying, leveraging, and successfully evangelizing opportunities to improve engineering productivity.

Requirements:

• BS in CS or related field
• 6+ years of hands-on quality, development and/or automation experience in virtualization and networking space
• Hand-on experience with various test automation framework (Robot, Python) and test automation tools (Cypress)
• Demonstrated experience in testing UI/UX performance and usability
• Experienced in various aspects of systems test, and in QA processes
• Knowledge of network management concepts and basic protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, L2/L3 protocols, IPv4, IPv6, NAT, REST)
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP layer, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL protocols, REST services and hands on experience on testing them.
• Experience in validating deliverables in virtualized environments
• Hands on experience in creating test beds for customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Must have a true passion for delivering quality products

Nice To Have

• Technical knowledge of current virtualization software, tools, protocols, and standards, including vCenter, VMware ESXi
• Technical knowledge of Elasticsearch, HA-Proxy
• Working knowledge of Amazon and other cloud platforms and environments
• Experience with network testing equipment such as Spirent, XENA, TREX

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