Solutions Test Engineer

Arista; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Arista Networks is seeking a senior Solution test engineer to ensure product quality through comprehensive system testing of large, complex environments. The role involves designing topologies, configuring hardware and tools, and executing exhaustive test plans to validate real‑world customer use cases.

You will collaborate with engineering, sales, and support teams, reproduce escalations, and present results with recommended improvements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a System test or Solution test role, handling complex end‑to‑end environments.
• Detailed knowledge of Layer 2/3 technologies and related protocols.
• Familiarity with Linux tools and scripting basics.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to operate independently and drive testing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders from development, sales and test teams to understand requirements and expectations.
• Plan building of the network topology required to test the use cases.
• Configure hardware, features, traffic generators and tools to emulate the environment.
• Execute exhaustive test plans focusing on performance and scale.
• Troubleshoot failures and coordinate root‑cause analysis with the dev team.
• Present results to stakeholders and suggest design/ performance improvements.
• Assist the TAC team with escalations and reproduction efforts.
• Cross‑train with peers to improve team effectiveness.

Skills

Communication skills

Independence

Curiosity to learn

Tools

Python

TCL

Job description

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

You will work with software development engineers, hardware engineers, field support engineers, product managers, and software test engineers to analyse customer requirements and use cases, gather technical details, create software test plans, and validate that the product meets our customer’s requirements. You will also work with our customer support and engineering teams to help address escalated customer issues by reproducing and debugging those in the lab.

What You’ll Do

Arista Networks is seeking high‑caliber Solution test engineers. The key role of the Solution test group is to ensure the quality of Arista’s products through System test type testing of large, complex and feature‑rich end‑to‑end environments focusing on key technologies and emulating Arista’s most important and strategic customers’ networks. Research technologies, features and customer environments to develop the right topologies for testing, exercising extensive feature interaction, and identifying potential breakage areas through exhaustive testing focusing on realistic use cases, scale and performance.

• Collaborate with various stakeholders from the development, sales and other test teams to understand requirements and expectations.
• Plan the building of, or add to, the existing network topology required to test the use cases.
• Configure hardware, features, traffic generators and other tools to emulate the required environment.
• Execute exhaustive test plans, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance and realistic scale.
• Troubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings, and work with the development team on reproduction, root‑cause analysis, fix verification and bug/limitation documentation.
• Communicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design and performance improvements.
• Interact with sales team and customers to answer questions, handle ad‑hoc requests and run small demos.
• Collaborate with peers to cross‑train on new technologies and improve team effectiveness.
• Help the TAC team with escalations reproductions efforts when needed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a System test or Solution test role, handling complex end‑to‑end environments.
• Highly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding, IP multicast, OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, MPLS, eVPN, ECMP, VRRP, STP, RSTP, MST, PVST+, Ethernet link aggregation, LACP, etc.
• Detailed working knowledge of layer‑2/3 switch administration, including industry‑standard CLI and SNMP interfaces.
• Familiarity with Linux tools such as ping, traceroute, tcpdump, ifconfig, ip link, ip route, arp, /proc/net, /proc/sys/net, vmstat, netstat, ttcp, iperf, and strace.
• Some familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or TCL.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong drive to improve quality and curiosity to learn new technologies.
• Able to operate with a high degree of independence, driven by an internal desire to succeed at the challenge of breaking our products.