Senior QA Automation (Python) with Networking for API

Luxoft; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global networking solutions provider is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure the quality of their networking applications. The role involves testing and validating features in collaboration with development and product teams. Candidates should have 8+ years of QA experience, with a focus on networking applications and automation testing. This position offers opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years overall QA background.
• 3+ years in networking domain testing.
• Experience with automation in Agile SCRUM teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development to test and validate features.
• Develop test strategy and plans for end-to-end validation.
• Execute test cases and document results.

Skills

QA background

Networking application testing

API/CLI testing

Python programming

Performance testing

Communication skills

Agile delivery

Automation development

Tools

VMware

Jenkins

JIRA

Job description

Project description

Product verification & testing for L1-L7 Traffic Generator Solution for a Global Networking Testing and Validation equipment provider.Our team: A team of networking enthusiasts willing to contribute to customer success Technologies used: Networking protocols, traffic generation tools, Windows/Linux servers, network virtualization, network security, wireless, network management tools, microservicesOpportunities: Networking and testing certifications, collaboration with an international team of professionals, working with the latest networking technologies and concepts, access to trainings

Responsibilities

• o Work closely with development engineering, product management, and customer solution engineering team to test and validate features functionality and system test profiles for data center networks, network security and routing technologies.o Develop test strategy, test topology and test plan to validate the features end-to-end at scale with network security considerationso Understand various customer deployments and solutions across data center networks, security, routing and switching and validate customer profileso Execute test cases and validate the solution end-to-end and document the test results on performance, scale and securityo Collaborate with development team to translate software requirements into high-quality test automation suiteso Debug and troubleshoot complex issues and work closely with the engineering team on the failures and validate the fixeso Develop automation for the end-to-end solution validation and integrate the automation for seamless validationo Finding and alleviating architectural bottlenecks, providing solutions that truly help our customers achieving the same.o Review customer deployments and customer-found issues and address any gaps in the test coverageo Involve in customer deployments and customer escalations and help the customers to deploy in the customer environment

SKILLS

Must have

• o Overall QA background of 8+ yearso Practical experience in testing networking domain-related applications 3+ yearso QA experience in Agile SCRUM team having a QA Automation role focused on API and/or CLI testing 3+ yearso Python programming knowledge is preferred (other similar coding languages would be relevant) 3+ yearso Automated Testing for API or CLI 3+ years, experience in test harness or framework developmento Agile delivery experienceo Experience in performance, scale and convergence testing and analysing performance-related issues and improving the performance and convergence at system levelo Ability to develop and publish solution validation document and test reportso Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation: Product Management, Technical Marketing, Field Sales, Documentation and Development Teamo Highly motivated and self-driveno Able to collaborate cross-functionally to meet challenging goals

Nice to have

o Knowledge into virtualization platforms such as VMware (vCenter, NSX), OpenStack and Linux OS variants such as Ubuntu, CentOS, KVM is a pluso CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, other)o JIRA/Confluence