Senior Network QA Engineer — Drive Flawless Deployments

HRUCKUS; Edwardsville (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

HRUCKUS is seeking a Senior Network QA Engineer for an onsite assignment in Edwardsville, IL. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of progressive network engineering experience, with deep expertise in quality assurance, runbook ownership, and documentation excellence.

You will serve as the final technical quality checkpoint before deployment in a large-scale, multi-vendor environment, ensuring configurations align with standards while improving processes and knowledge sharing across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive network engineering experience with senior responsibilities
• Experience in runbook creation, ownership, and execution
• Experience in technical documentation development
• Experience in quality assurance or quality process ownership within network environments
• Experience supporting enterprise firewall deployments
• Experience supporting enterprise routing and switching implementations
• Strong understanding of routing and switching
• Strong understanding of VLAN design
• Strong understanding of network circuits and connectivity
• Strong understanding of centralized network management platforms
• Strong understanding of change management and process controls
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to identify and resolve process gaps and technical quality issues
• Strong attention to detail and customer-focused mindset

Responsibilities

• Perform pre-deployment quality assurance reviews of network device configurations across multiple technologies and platforms
• Serve as the final technical quality checkpoint prior to deployment or shipment
• Validate configurations against established runbooks, standards, and documented requirements
• Identify errors, omissions, and deviations from standards
• Provide real-time guidance and procedural support during staging and deployment activities without directly performing configurations
• Review, validate, and continuously improve technical runbooks supporting the device deployment lifecycle
• Ensure procedures and standards remain current, accurate, and scalable
• Update documentation and processes as issues are identified to capture lessons learned and reduce repeat issues
• Drive change-control discipline by documenting, reviewing, and approving process deviations
• Develop and maintain clear technical documentation that teams can easily follow
• Create templates, checklists, and reference materials to improve consistency and reduce operational risk
• Document systems, workflows, and technical dependencies supporting deployment processes
• Support continuous process improvement initiatives
• Communicate quality status, deployment readiness, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Partner with engineering, project management, and operations teams throughout the deployment lifecycle
• Provide written and verbal updates on findings, risks, and remediation activities
• Support knowledge sharing and mentor team members on quality standards and best practices

Skills

Strong written and verbal

Routing & switching

VLAN design

Change management

Documentation

Quality assurance

Process ownership

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Tools

FortiManager

Fortinet

Juniper

Cradlepoint

Job description

HRUCKUS is seeking a Senior Network QA Engineer for an onsite assignment in Edwardsville, IL. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of progressive network engineering experience, with deep expertise in quality assurance, runbook ownership, and documentation excellence.

You will serve as the final technical quality checkpoint before deployment in a large-scale, multi-vendor environment, ensuring configurations align with standards while improving processes and knowledge sharing across teams.