Senior Lead Test & Automation Engineer - Networking Platforms

Basebiz; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Test automation framework

Job summary

Basebiz in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Senior/Lead Test & Automation Engineer to verify data center routing and switching platforms, with hands-on experience in testing, automation, and network security.

The role focuses on building large-scale test topologies, developing automation suites in Python, and collaborating with product management and engineering to validate features end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/ECE or equivalent.
• 4 to 12 years of relevant experience in Networking/Telecom embedded/network management testing and automation.
• Experience testing Data Center Network platforms; solid test plan development.
• Hands-on with test tools (Spirent, IXIA) and virtualization platforms (VMware, OpenStack).
• Proficient in developing test automation suites using Python or similar scripting language.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering, product management, and customer solution teams to test data center networks and security features.
• Develop test strategy, topology, and plans for end-to-end validation at scale.
• Validate customer deployments and translate requirements into automated tests.
• Execute tests, document results, and evaluate performance, scale, and security.
• Create and publish comprehensive validation reports and test documents.

Skills

Python scripting

Test automation

Networking knowledge

System test

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

B.S./B.E./B.Tech in CS/EE/ECE

Tools

Spirent

IXIA

VMware

OpenStack

Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS/KVM)

Python automation framework

Job description

118199 Senior/Lead Test & Automation Engineer - Networking Platforms

Automated Testing Others

Bengaluru, India

Project Description:

Product verification & testing for Data Center routing & switching platforms - Major Enterprise Networking equipment provider

Skills required:

• Minimum of B.S./B.E./B.Tech in CS/EE/ECE
• 4 to 12 years of relevant industry experience in Networking/Telecom- Embedded/Network Management with hands-on experience in functional, system test and automation
• Proven technical knowledge and experience in testing Data Center Network platforms
• Proven knowledge and hands-on experience in test plan development and validating scalable data center network and network security solutions
• Experience in planning and building large scaled system test topologies with detailed knowledge of test automation tools and software test tools (Spirent, IXIA) and virtualization platforms such as VMware (vCenter, NSX), OpenStack and Linux OS variants such as Ubuntu, CentOS, KVM
• Hands-on experience in developing test automation suites using Python or a similar scripting language
• Experience in performance, scale and convergence testing and analyzing performance related issues and improving the performance and convergence at system level
• Ability to develop and publish solution validation document and test reports
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization: Product Management, Technical Marketing, Field Sales, Documentation and Development Team
• Highly motivated and self-driven
• Able to collaborate cross-functionally to meet challenging goals

Nice To Have:

Test Automation Framework.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Develop test strategy, test topology and test plan to validate the features end-to-end at scale with network security considerations
• Understand various customer deployments and solutions across data center networks, security, routing and switching and validate customer profiles
• Execute test cases and validate the solution end-to-end and document the test results on performance, scale and security
• Collaborate with development team to translate software requirements into high-quality test automation suites
• Debug and troubleshoot complex issues and work closely with the engineering team on the failures and validate the fixes
• Develop automation for the end-to-end solution validation and integrate the automation for seamless validation
• Review customer deployments and customer found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage
• Involve in customer deployments and customer escalations and help the customers to deploy Extreme Networks' solutions in the customer environment