Software QA Technical Lead, MX QA - Python Automation

Meraki is looking for a Software QA Technical Leader to join to support test qualification of our SD-WAN product offerings. As a Software QA Technical Lead, your responsibility includes designing and building testbeds, creating and implementing the integrated/application tests that resemble customer use-case for SD-WAN and Security solutions over physical, cloud, on-prem MX products and Meraki Dashboard, and contributing to industry-leading technologies in the cloud eco. As a part of a geographically distributed team, you will collaborate with multiple Meraki engineering teams and stakeholders around the globe to develop a fully-furnished test strategy. To be successful in this role, you will need to have motivation, curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and experience with telco technologies and automation as a breath.

In addition to driving test strategy, test planning and performing testing on large-scale networks you will provide technical leadership of entire QA team to drive and implement new insights to optimize and alleviate the team.

What You Will Be Doing

Develop a comprehensive understanding of the use cases/workflows of the MX and vMX solution deployed in the customer environment.

Participate in requirements/design discussions with Product managers & development team and represent the QA team.

Design a test strategy document for the Meraki MX & vMX features and collaborate with other QA and development teams to cover all aspects of the features being developed.

Execution of tests and reporting test results, and test metrics pertaining to these tests.

Develop automation scripts in parallel or ahead with feature testing to enable CI/CD (i.e Automation Driven Testing)

Identify, evaluate and propose new test tools and methodologies for improving -level product testing.

Analyze the test gaps that resulted in customer issues and incorporate them into the test strategy.

E2E ownership from feature testing to production deployment to monitoring & alerting.

Proactively, Identify gaps in the regression test automation and improve automation coverage.

Provide leadership & mentorship to the MX QA team and guide junior engineers in developing test-plan and reviewing their work.

Invest in innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to foster the originality of ideas to productize them.

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

12+ years of proven experience in Software Quality assurance with at least 5+ years of testing or integration testing experience in large-scale routing, switching and wireless domain.

In-depth knowledge of SDWAN, Security, Layer-2(VLAN/802.1Q), Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT) and are at ease to ramp up quickly on new technologies and concepts.

Proficiency in writing quality code with one of the programming or scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, and Golang.

Hands-on experience with any one of Cloud or Containerized platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, AliCloud, ESXi, NSX-T, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Dockers, etc

Good understanding of customer deployments and applying those takeaways to in-house testing and validations.

Understanding of traffic generators and ability to explore tools and techniques to improve the testing methodology

Experience building, supporting, maintaining, and scaling automation in a CI/CD environment.

Knowledge of end-to-end testing of embedded devices at the test level

Experience with traffic profile creation based on traffic mix from different sources

Experience with Automation framework and/or CI pipeline development

Effective communication skills and proven track record of collaboration with stakeholders.

Experience in technically directing a team of QA engineers.

What makes you stand out

Ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature, platform, domain and enterprise teams, with a strong focus on business outcomes

The ability to communicate sophisticated technical concepts clearly to peers and management

Research of applications and Framework experience - Acquired patent(s), Published Whitepapers / Yellow paper on embedded solutions

Experience and certified with Cloud and Containerized platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, AliCloud, Kubernetes, Dockers, etc