QA SW ENGINEER 10547- Layer2/Layer3 Protocol Testing

Extreme Networks; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ISTQB

Cloud Practitioner

Network+

CWNA

CCNA

Job summary

Extreme Networks is seeking a QA Engineer to partner with engineering, services and field teams to build and validate products for demanding customer deployments. You will formulate test strategies, plan tests, and develop scripts/tools to validate functional, performance, and scalability aspects of Platform and Software solutions.

This role requires 2–4 years in telecom/data networking and network security, with strong debugging, OS/networking knowledge and good communication skills.

Qualifications

• BE/BTech or MS in CS/ECE/TCE/EEE or related field.
• 2-4 years of relevant industry experience in Telecom/Data Networking and network security.

Responsibilities

• Write test strategy and test plans and develop tools to validate functional, performance and scalability aspects.
• Partner with Engineering, Services and Field Engineers to ensure high-end customer deployments and validation.

Skills

Test planning

Test case mapping

Defect logging

Debugging

Networking concepts

OS concepts

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

B.E./B.Tech. or MS in CS/ECE/TCE/EEE or related

Tools

Ixia/Spirent

Wireshark

Traceroute

Cloud-based validation

Microservices architecture

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

The QA Engineer would be an individual contributor partnering with other Engineering teams, Services and Field Engineers to help build and validate the Products and Solutions for high end customer deployments. The Engineers would write test strategy, test plans and develop tools and scripts to cover the various functional, performance and scalability aspects of Platform and Software solution validation.

Qualification and Experience

B.E. / B.Tech. or equivalent in CS/ECE/TCE/EEE or MS in Computer science/application/engineering
2-4 years of relevant industry experience in Telecom/Data Networking and network security

Skillset Required

• Excellent knowledge and work experience in most of the following areas:
• Good understanding of Operating system concepts and network applications and network operating system.
• Familiarity with Traffic Generators (Ixia/Spirent) and Network debugging tools (Wireshark, ping, traceroute etc.)
• Good knowledge of Cloud based application validation and micro services-based architecture.
• Should have hands-on experience on Test planning, computer networking topology planning, requirement-to-testcase mapping, Test case writing, Defect logging and tracking, with excellent debugging skills.
• Good knowledge of testing methodologies, knowledge of different testing types and overall product life cycle.
• Good Analytical and Communication Skills
• IEEE 802.1 (Bridging, VLAN, STP, MAC security, LLDP)
• L2/L3 Features (TCP/IP, VRRP, IGMP, IPv4, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, ARP), Basic understanding of IS-IS.
• Network Management and Monitoring (SNMP, SFLOW, Netflow, RMON, ERSPAN)
• DHCP, DNS, SSH, RADIUS, TACACS, LDAP, IPSec, CA.
• Network Security and Management features - Netlogin, AAA, IP sec, Firewalls, SSL, SNMP MIB.
• Unix/Linux and Windows environments.

Added Advantages

• ISTQB, Cloud Practitioner, Network+, CWNA and CCNA certification will have added advantage.