SVT/PV Engineering Routing/IP_Intern

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Python Developer

Why Ciena? 

• We’re a company rooted in people—seeking to create a vibrant and inclusive environment, where everyone feels they can belong.  
• Accelerate your career path by gaining hands-on experience and exposure to the latest technology. Our interns and graduates work on real projects in real time in world class labs. Be a part of tomorrow’s future – today. 

• Mentoring. Networking. Leadership Opportunities. We recognize that the learning doesn’t stop when you leave school - we champion a team environment for development and provide the tools to achieve success. 
• We are big proponents of life-work integration. Our people make a big difference at Ciena, but we want to shine light on their differences outside of working hours too. CienaCares supports non-profit causes important to employees by matching employee financial contributions and dedicating time for volunteering. 

The Opportunity:

Six Month work term: Jan,2025 – June,2025

How You Will Contribute:
As a QA Software Engineer you will be creating and running tests to find defects in a feature. You will review feature design documents, create a test plan, execute tests, raising any bugs you find and work with development engineers to fix that bug. Test Automation is a significant part of the role and you will automate all tests in Python to allow continual automated regression tests of images

• Participate in review of requirements and contribute to detailed specification of features for cloud based network orchestration products
• Define test plans and test cases, to ensure known quality prior to the release of new features
• Execute test cases, maintain and report on product feature performance, conformance, and regression status
• Work closely with engineers across teams to ensure quality for the features
• Automate QA testing for the features in each release
• Share in maintaining core test automation with the team
• Record and track product defects
• Recreate customer-reported defects to clarify problem definitions

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• A sense of urgency – what’s important to the customer is equally important to you.  You make getting things done a priority.
• Integrity – you hold yourself to the highest level of personal and professional standards of conduct.
• A commitment to innovation – you continually seek to learn, understand new technologies and ever-changing market conditions, and endeavor to apply that knowledge to Ciena’s advantage.
• You embrace change – thriving in a diverse environment of ever-changing priorities and sometimes stressful situations.
• The flexibility to work independently with minimal supervision as well as part of a broader team.

The Must Haves:

• Experience writing tests in Python, or similar dynamic languages
• Knowledge and demonstrated usage of Linux OS (ideally Debian), containers and Kubernetes desirable
• Any knowledge of Atlassian toolset, Jenkins, Git, Robot framework would be an advantage
• Can demonstrate an understanding of REST based web services and cloud platforms
• Experience with network protocols and services
• Ability to analyze and critique software functionality
• Can describe visible symptoms of a problem, and propose alternative ways to approach the diagnosis of the underlying issue
• Able to articulate problems found
• Able to work in small teams and individually
• Inquisitive & conscientious at investigating problems
• Collaborative

Assets:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated and dedicated to meeting deadlines independently.
• Thrives in a collaborative team environment.

Education

Undergoing B.Tech. in  Computer Science or IT or similar.