Senior Network System Test Engineer - Linux & Automation

NVIDIA AI; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Software Test Engineer to join the NVIDIA-Cumulus Linux Verification Engineering Team in Santa Clara. You will lead verification of NVIDIA-Cumulus Linux platforms, develop test plans, execute tests, and build automated test suites.

You will collaborate across engineering groups, review requirements, and contribute to a fast-growing data center networking verification effort. The role offers equity and benefits; base salary ranges 184k–287.5k USD depending on level.

Qualifications

• B.S degree or equivalent experience in Engineering/Computer Science/related field.
• 8+ years of proven experience in Software Quality Engineering.
• Strong technical abilities, problem-solving, design, coding, and debugging skills.
• Hands-on experience on Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing features.
• Hands-on experience on switch platform or ASIC features, firmwares and upgrades.
• Expertise with CPLD, BIOS, SecureBoot, SSD testing.
• Experience with using test tools from Ixia or Spirent and working experience with test management tools.
• Expertise in telemetry features.
• Strong skills in Python or other scripting languages are a must.
• Good experience working on Unix or Linux-based OS with solid understanding of software engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Platforms Bring up: New platforms which are part of Spectrum series Ethernet Switch Systems.
• Functional Testing of various Layer1, Layer2 and Layer3 features of NVIDIA-Mellanox Spectrum series Ethernet Switch systems running NVIDIA-Cumulus Linux.
• Understand the new platform components and write detailed feature and system test plans, and define and design test beds and topologies.
• Report issues found during testing into the defect tracking system and validate the fixes and workarounds.
• Develop automated test suites for different features of NVIDIA-Cumulus Linux.
• Build and maintain automation required to ensure quality via continuous functional regression.
• Collaborate with design, test and other internal engineering groups to identify, report, and resolve issues found during testing.

Skills

Python

Testing

Debugging

Linux

Scripting

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

B.S degree or equivalent in Engineering/Computer Science/related field

Tools

Ixia

Spirent

Test management tools

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Software Test Engineer to join the NVIDIA-Cumulus Linux Verification Engineering Team in Santa Clara. You will lead verification of NVIDIA-Cumulus Linux platforms, develop test plans, execute tests, and build automated test suites.

You will collaborate across engineering groups, review requirements, and contribute to a fast-growing data center networking verification effort. The role offers equity and benefits; base salary ranges 184k–287.5k USD depending on level.