Staff Qa Sw Engineer

Overview

Staff QA Software Engineer to drive end-to-end quality assurance for a cloud-native networking platform, including test strategy, test planning, and automation across cloud, networking, microservices, APIs and UI components.

What you'll do

• Define end-to-end test strategy and test planning.
• Plan, develop, execute and automate test suites for cloud-based networking applications and services.
• Perform functional, integration, performance and scale/load validations.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Development, CloudOps and other teams.
• Review customer deployments and customer-found issues and address gaps in test coverage.
• Automate features end-to-end across API and GUI.
• Review automation code written by other team members and give feedback.
• Perform API testing (functional, security and scale/performance), REST preferred.

What you'll need

• Excellent QA experience in most of the following areas: testing cloud-based applications; cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure; Kubernetes, Docker and clustering solutions; creating end-to-end test strategy and test planning; testing wired networking protocols such as VLAN, IP, STP, TCP, UDP, VRRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IS-IS and SPBM; testing enterprise wireless and wired networks; security concepts and protocols such as AAA framework, 802.1X, captive portal, VPN, firewalls and SSL; UI test automation using Selenium or Playwright; virtualization and hypervisors (ESX, Hyper-V); network testing tools such as Wireshark, Ethereal or JMeter; Linux/Unix OS.
• Hands-on programming in Java, Python, Robot, Perl, Go or TCL/TK.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 8-14 years of experience in the Network Management/Orchestration domain.
• Good debugging skills in a microservices-oriented architecture based product.
• Detailed understanding of cloud technologies and containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing and monitoring using tools such as JMeter and Locust.
• Expertise in API testing, including API contract testing using mocks and API automation, and knowledge of relevant widely used tools.
• UI automation using Selenium, Robot framework and Python.
• Applied experience with version control systems such as Git and GitHub.
• Comfortable with SQL/NoSQL/in-memory databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis or Ignite.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Ability and willingness to work independently.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Curiosity and mindset to challenge the status quo.
• Ability to identify and automate repeated day-to-day activities.
• Ability to clearly articulate and report risks and mitigations to management.

Nice to have

• Experience or exposure to AI, machine learning and related tools.
• Good analytical skills.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.