Senior Quality Engineer - Solution Testing & Automation - Networking

Luxoft Germany; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Germany seeks a seasoned QA Engineer to verify product features for Data Center routing and switching platforms. You will design test strategies, build scalable topologies, and drive end-to-end validation with a focus on performance and security.

Collaboration with engineering and customer teams is essential to ensure robust test coverage. Responsibilities include developing automation, validating customer deployments, and addressing escalations with the engineering team to improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in CS/EE/ECE/IT or equivalent.
• Experience in testing Data Center networks and security solutions.
• Hands-on experience with test plan development and scalable test topologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development, product management, and customer solution teams to test features and system test profiles for data center networks, security, and routing technologies.
• Develop test strategy, topology, and plan to validate features end-to-end at scale with security considerations.
• Execute test cases, document results, and verify performance, scale, and security outcomes.
• Develop test automation suites and integrate automation for end-to-end validation.
• Review deployments and customer-found issues to address gaps in test coverage and assist in customer deployments.

Skills

Networking

Embedded/Network Management

Test automation

Python scripting

Data Center networks

Spirent/IXIA

VMware/OpenStack

Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS/KVM)

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Spirent

IXIA

VMware vCenter/NSX

OpenStack

Linux variants (Ubuntu, CentOS, KVM)

Job description

Project description

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

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 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 Client's solutions in the customer environment

SKILLS

Must have

• o Minimum of B.S./B.E./B.Tech in CS/EE/ECE/ITo 8+ years of relevant industry experience in Networking/Telecom- Embedded/Network Management with hands-on experience in functional, system test and automationo Proven technical knowledge and experience in testing Data Center Network platformso Proven knowledge and hands-on experience in test plan development and validating scalable data center network and network security solutionso Experience in planning and building large-scale 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, KVMo Hands-on experience in developing test automation suites using Python or a similar scripting languageo Experience in performance, scale and convergence testing and analyzing 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 organization: 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

Test Automation Framework.