Collaborate with various stakeholders from the development, sales and other test teams to understand requirements and expectations.
Plan the building of, or add to the existing network topology required to test the use cases.
Configure hardware, features, traffic generators and other tools to emulate the required environment
Execute exhaustive testplan, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance and realistic scale
Troubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings and work with the development team on reproduction, root cause analysis, fix verification and bug/limitation documentation
Communicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design and performance improvements
Interact with sales team and customers to answer questions, handle ad-hoc requests and run small demos
Collaborate with peers to cross-train on new technologies and improve team effectiveness
Help the TAC team with escalations reproductions efforts when needed.
8+ years of experience in a System test or Solution test role, handling complex end-to-end environments.
Highly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding, IP multicast, OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, MPLS, eVPN, ECMP, VRRP, STP, RSTP, MST, PVST+, Ethernet link aggregation, LACP, etc
Detailed working knowledge of layer-2/3-switch administration, including industry-standard CLI and SNMP interfaces
Familiarity with Linux tools such as ping, traceroute, tcpdump, ifconfig, ip link, ip route, arp, /proc/net, /proc/sys/net, vmstat, netstat, ttcp, iperf, and strace
Some familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or TCL
Strong written and oral communication skills
Strong drive to improve quality and curiosity to learn new technologies
Able to operate with a high degree of independence, driven by an internal desire to succeed at the challenge of breaking our products