Staff Solutions Test Engineer

Calix is seeking a talented and passionate staff level Test engineer for the solutions test team

The position is part of a global test team that is providing software/hardware testing and quality assurance on an industry disrupting ecosystem comprised of cloud, embedded systems, and network access products

This position will primarily be focused on the testing of a complete network solution in a multitude of test environments which include the last mile of the Telecomm network

Responsibilities and Duties:

Responsible for overall test strategy and design of test topologies

Work with cross functional teams to provide test effort estimation for SW deliverables

Provide technical guidance to team members

independently set day-to-day work priorities while working to achieve the goals of the team/organization

Create test plans and test cases to validate assigned features and overall solution

Execute and monitor tests to report system issues and test results

Perform regression testing on new software and hardware, scalability tests and evaluate compliance to specifications

Develop and execute tests to validate customer use cases

Reproduce field issues and validate their resolution

Use traffic generators to create real-world traffic streams for video, data, and voice related testing

Capture and analyze data packets

Troubleshoot and debug issues

Clearly describe system-faults in issue tracking products

Lead/mentor a small team of junior and senior level test engineers

Work with multiple internal cross-functional teams, as well as 3rd parties, to analyze test results and field scenarios

10+ years of technical knowledge/experience working with access and premises network systems

Excels at learning quickly and adapting to change

Must be detail-oriented, be able to work independently and sometimes with limited information

Proactively communicate status, issues, and support needs to appropriate manager(s)

Organized and goal-focused, ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years of knowledge and experience with Telecom Access Products specifically GPON/NGPON/XGS-PON technologies as they apply to Fiber-to-the Home, Fiber-to-the-Business, Fiber-to-the-Curb, Fiber-to-the-Desk, etc,

Minimum of 5 years of networking protocols and technology experience related to Layer2/3 Ethernet networks including, but not limited to, TCP/IP, DHCP, PPPoE, UDP, IPv4/v6, MPLS, Link Aggregation, Ethernet packet structures, VLAN routing, QoS, IPTV, SIP, H

248, MGCP, ISIS, BGP, OSPF, and other upper-layer application protocols

Experience testing user interfaces including, but not limited to, SNMP, TR69, Netconf, GNMI

Experience with data communications or telecommunications product testing in one or more of the following areas:

OSPF, BGP, G

8032 and/or L2/L3 Routing protocols

Experience with packet capture tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, iperf, wireline simulators, traffic generators and other networking test and evaluation tools

Experience with end-to-end testing of OLT-ONU(OMCI) interaction and troubleshooting

Excellent general troubleshooting skills

Ability to articulate problems in detail

Excellent verbal/written English communication skills while working with local/remote teams

Hands-on experience with performance test methods and tools, e g

, Spirent, IXIA, Abacus/Ameritec Bulk Call Generators, Ookla Speed Test, Iperf, etc,

BS/MS EE, or equivalent

CCNA/CCNP/JNCIP/RHCSA or equivalent desired

Location:

Bangalore, India