Job Description
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Job Description
CIENA's Packet products portfolio comprises of a broad family of products for access and aggregation tiers of the network. Typically spanning from the Metro edge to the customer edge, these products provide Carrier Ethernet/MPLS/G.8032/TDM services in mobile backhaul, enterprise and residential domains. The RSP (Routing Switching Portfolio) R&D organization is responsible for delivering platform-independent Service Aware Operating System (SAOS), Access products and next-generation virtualized operating system to support Virtualized/SDN/NFV applications.
Gurgaon R&D centre has seen exponential growth in various dimensions including development, test and release planning. In last 6 years, Gurgaon test team has grown to be the largest team across globe having ownership of multiple RSP products/releases. Team has huge state-of-art engineering lab in Gurgaon and real time exposure to Tier-1 service provider network deployments.
Uni-dimensional scale and upgrade team charter is to automate and test feature up to its limit as per the functional specification and validate the configs,traffic and then scale down along with testing all aspects of software upgrade.
As part of this team, you will be getting exciting opportunity to work on entire breadth of next generation technologies like advanced MPLS concepts, L3 protocols, D-NFVi. You will be working on automating scale and upgrade suites, executing them and working with R&D teams across geographies.
Responsibilities include:
- Requires continuous research to ensure software features meet identified standards and product functional requirements.
- Develop, execute, and automate functional test plans to verify product capabilities.
- Execution of test cases and reporting test results with artifacts using Quality Center (QC).
- Work closely with engineers across teams to ensure quality for the features.
- Coordinate activities with North America test and development teams on a need basis.
- FS and Test Plan / script Reviews: Able to host test plan reviews under guidance for assigned features. Attend and provide comments specific to the functional requirements for FS reviews for assigned features.
- Develop test cases beyond what is described in FS, including compliancy to commercial specs and RFCs, potential and likely interactions with other features, which may involve complex scenarios and topology.
Required Skills
- Position requires troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Understand Software Development Life Cycle.
- Able to think key scenarios, write test cases, automate & execute test cases.
- Team oriented; strong inter-personal skills
- Demonstrated communications skills, both verbal and written, to effectively communicate/collaborate with remote QA and Development teams
- Strong commitment to product excellence and quality
- Adaptability: Able to manage feature and schedule churns
- Automation Experience preferrable in Python.
- Experience with L2/L3 technologies at least at concept level.
Required Experience Optional
- BE / B.Tech. (EE/CS) Degree
- 1 years of relevant experience in telecommunications and testing.
- Fluency and experience in data communication systems, networking, Ethernet switches.
- Hands-on experience with L2/L3 topologies would be a plus.
- Experience with at least one networking protocols would be a big plus: MPLS, TCP/IP, Ethernet, 802.1Q, GRE, VXLAN, VLAN, L2VPN, L3VPN, MPLS, G.8032, BGP, Network Security
- Experience with traffic generators such as Ixia, Spirent would be plus.
- Knowledge of network design and deployment scenarios in Carrier/Metro Ethernet Space is plus.
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