QA Automation Engineer

Ciena; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology company is seeking a talented engineer to lead product verification automation efforts. This role involves collaborating with various teams to transform requirements into optimized testing solutions, ensuring high-quality customer experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, utilizing advanced testing frameworks and automation tools to drive efficiency. Join a forward-thinking organization that values individual growth and a flexible work culture, making a meaningful impact in the technology landscape. If you're passionate about automation and eager to take on leadership responsibilities, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in product verification automation with a focus on frontend and backend testing.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Engage with engineering teams to enhance customer experience through optimized test coverage.
• Automate and maintain test cases, analyze results, and report on automation status.

Skills

Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Cucumber/Webdriver.io

Rest API testing automation tools

Postman/Newman

JMeter

Docker

Kubernetes

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins

AWS

Git

Python

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

TestRail

Job description

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing 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.
• Raise Agile Jira bugs for product defects
• 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 testing: Rest API testing automation tools, Postman/Newman, Jasmine
• Load testing: JMeter, Grafana + Prometheus
• Container management: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack
• Testing Theory: terminology, testing types, asynchronous automated testing
• Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab
• Cloud Environments: AWS, Azure, Google cloud
• 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 programming/markup languages: Typescript/JavaScript, html, CSS, SVG
• Frontend development frameworks/libraries: Angular 2+, Node.js/npm, D3.js, gulp
• Backend programming/markup languages: Python
• Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts, etc.

Non-critical extras:

• Domain: Telecom, Computer Networking, OSS
• Builds: Maven, NPM, JVM, NodeJS
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Neo4j, ClickHouse
• Test Management: TestRail
• Other Skills: ElasticSearch, Drools, Kafka integration, REST (on Spring MVC), SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2)

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