Python Automation Testing Engineer

Ciena; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ciena seeks a motivated engineer for product verification automation, focused on enhancing testing processes and customer experiences. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, coding automated tests, and ensuring a high-quality product through effective verification strategies in a fast-paced environment. Join Ciena to lead impactful projects and contribute to their commitment to innovation.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Focus on individual growth and well-being

Qualifications

• Experience in automation testing and product verification.
• Strong knowledge of frontend and backend testing frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Engage with engineering teams to enhance customer experience.
• Automate and maintain test cases using best practices.
• Analyze test results and create reports.

Skills

Cucumber/Webdriver.io

Python

Rest API testing tools

JMeter

Git

Bash

Unix operational skills

Agile scrum practices

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

We believe in the power of people. We are a network strategy and technology company that is motivated by making a difference in people’s lives – their productivity, creativity, health and comfort.

We’re looking for a highly motivated, talented and experienced engineer who is passionate about product verification automation activities and is ready to assume a leadership position within the team in addressing future projects. You will certify solutions that provide our customers opportunities to differentiate their service offerings in a very competitive market.

The ideal candidate is a flexible, highly technical problem solver, with interdisciplinary knowledge of software, and test & test automation. You feel at home in a dynamic, multi-disciplined engineering environment, acting as an interface between product design, other Blue Planet test engineering teams, and members of other functional groups (support, documentation, marketing, etc).

• RESPONSIBILITIES
• Engage with various engineering teams, product line managers and product owners to transform concepts and high-level requirements into optimized test coverage and enhanced customer experience.
• Automate and maintain all manually devised and executed test cases using automation best practices and maintain CI/CD pipeline framework
  • Coding E2E Automated tests for the Angular UI frontend with Cucumber/Webdriver.io.
  • Coding Rest API testing automation
  • Coding of System testing with ansible, bash scripting
• Drive (plan and implement) lab or simulation environment setup activities to fully address proposed testing scenarios and coordinate equipment acquisition/sharing agreements with the various teams concerned.
• Analyse test results and prepare test reports.
• Investigate software defects and highlight critical issues that can have potential customer impact and consult with software development engineers in finding resolution or to address problems related to specifications and/or test plans/procedures.
• Report on automation status
• Research the best tools/ways of test automation for required functionality

SKILLS

Expected from the candidate:

• Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Cucumber/Webdriver.io
• Backend programming/markup languages: Python
• Backend testing: Rest API testing automation tools, Postman/Newman, Jasmine
• Load testing: JMeter, Grafana + Prometheus
• Testing Theory: terminology, testing types, asynchronous automated testing
• Version control system: Git, Bitbucket
• System Testing Automation with: Bash, Shell, Python, Ansible scripting
• Hands-on experience of CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance
• Solid operational and administrator experience with Unix operation systems
• Understanding of Web application and Microservice solution architecture
• Strong abilities to rapidly learn new complex technological concepts and apply knowledge in daily activities.
• Excellent written (documentation) and interpersonal communication skills (English).
• Strong abilities to work as part of a team or independently with little supervision.
• Experienced working as part of an Agile scrum team and with DevOps process

Desirable for the candidate:

• Ticketing: Jira
• Documentation: Confluence, Gitlab
• Frontend development frameworks/libraries: Angular 2+, Node.js/npm, D3.js, gulp
• Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts, etc.

Non-critical extras:

• Domain: Telecom, Computer Networking, OSS
• Test Management: TestRail
• Other Skills: ElasticSearch, Drools, Kafka integration, REST (on Spring MVC), SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2)

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About the company

Ciena Corporation is an American telecommunications networking equipment and software services supplier based in Hanover, Maryland.

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