Software Engineer

Broadcom (earlier VMware) is looking for senior software quality engineers who are passionate about changing the future Application Networking Security. The ideal candidate has a wide variety of software experience in the areas of distributed systems testing, application networking security, networking, object oriented programming, automation and virtualisation software.

You will be expected to become an expert on the next generation Networking Security products. In the test team we consider ourselves to be the first customer. This means that we anticipate problems customers will experience before they experience them, and we do this through writing comprehensive end to end test cases. We utilize complex automation to build the test environments and execute the test cases. In addition to testing end to end functionality we also have the opportunity to think creatively, and shape the product s features and behaviour to create a better user experience for the customer.

A strong understanding of quality engineering methodologies, and enterprise software is a must. This is a rewarding position for people who love to problem solve, revel in figuring out complex problems, love debugging, and have a thirst for learning.

Responsibilities:

• Clear verbal and written communication skills
• Be a strong advocate of software quality
• Understand customer needs and environments
• Write complex and innovative test cases
• Author feature test plans
• Build complex testing environments from scratch with automation
• Automation to build testbeds, and execute system test cases
• Track test deliverables to product release schedule
• Lead the validation effort of major product features
• Coach and mentor junior engineers
• Continually increase test code efficiency and lower cycle times
• Communicate with all stakeholders and team members and provide updates perform other duties and responsibilities as requested or required

Requirements:

• At least 9 plus years of experience in software development and quality engineering
• 5+ years of Python or equivalent
• Object oriented programming
• Software/Hardware system administration experience
• 5+ Years Virtualization experience - Installation / Configuration / Administration (KVM and ESX a plus)
• Operating Systems: Deep Linux knowledge - Installation / Configuration / Administration (RHEL and Ubuntu a plus), Windows Server, Windows 7
• Strong understanding of L2 and L3 networks, VLANs
• Good understanding of Network security features, like Firewalls (Distributed, L7, IDFW), Threat detection and preventions, etc
• Networking troubleshooting / debugging - eg tcpdump, wireshark, traceroute, route, netstat
• Self-sufficient, but knows when to ask for help

Education:

Mandatory Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or higher) and equivalent work experience