Senior QA Automation (Python) with Networking

at  Luxoft

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Product verification & testing for L1-L7 Traffic Generator Solution for a Global Networking Testing and Validation equipment provider.
Our team: A team of networking enthusiasts willing to contribute to customer success Technologies used: Networking protocols, traffic generation tools, Windows/Linux servers, network virtualization, network security, wireless, network management tools, microservices
Opportunities: Networking and testing certifications, collaboration with an international team of professionals, working with the latest networking technologies and concepts, access to trainings

SKILLS

Must have
Overall QA background of 5+ years
Experience in testing networking scenario L3-L7 3+ years
QA experience in Agile SCRUM team having a QA Automation role
Python programming knowledge is preferred (other similar coding languages would be relevant) 2+ years
Experience in performance, scale and convergence testing and analysing performance-related issues and improving the performance and convergence at system level
Ability to develop and publish solution validation document and test reports
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation: Product Management, Technical Marketing, Field Sales, Documentation and Development Team
Highly motivated and self-driven
Able to collaborate cross-functionally to meet challenging goals
Nice to have
Product verification & testing into OSI stack lower Layers L1-L2 to generate alarms and errors, stress FEC logic, FCS and Preamble checks.
Understand various customer deployments and solutions across Physical Layer, FEC and MAC/IP.
Hands-on working with high speed QSFP(quad small form factor pluggable) covering native and breakout line multi-rates including PAM4 and NRZ from 50G to 800G
Fiber optics knowledge in term of attenuation, frequency, wavelength, connectors and power measurement for TX and Rx flows.
System verification and debugging tests for high speed traffic load testing, system delay performance (jitter, skew)
Knowledge of virtualization platforms such as VMware (vCenter, NSX), OpenStack and Linux OS variants such as Ubuntu, CentOS, KVM is a plus
CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, other)
JIRA/Confluence

Work closely with development engineering, product management, and customer solution engineering team to test and validate features functionality and system test profiles for data center networks, network security and routing technologies.
Develop test strategy, test topology and test plan to validate the features end-to-end at scale with network security considerations
Understand various customer deployments and solutions across data center networks, security, routing and switching and validate customer profiles
Execute test cases and validate the solution end-to-end and document the test results on performance, scale and security
Collaborate with development team to translate software requirements into high-quality test automation suites
Debug and troubleshoot complex issues and work closely with the engineering team on the failures and validate the fixes
Develop automation for the end-to-end solution validation and integrate the automation for seamless validation
Finding and alleviating architectural bottlenecks, providing solutions that truly help our customers achieving the same.
Review customer deployments and customer found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage
Involve in customer deployments and customer escalations and help the customers to deploy in the customer environment