Senior Network Test Engineer - Automation & QA

Nexthop AI; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexthop AI is hiring a QA/Test engineer to drive end-to-end testing for cutting-edge networking and AI deployments. You will perform platform, functional, and regression tests, build automation scripts, and design testbeds to qualify software releases.

Collaborate with SW/HW and support teams, reproduce faults, and continuously update test scripts to prevent recurrence of issues, contributing to high-quality, scalable AI infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience in test, QA, solutions testing roles. Hands-on testing experience is a MUST.
• Proficient in networking technologies software, network protocols, network designs and deployments with hands-on experience across Network Operating Systems (NOS) such as IOS, IOS-XR, EOS, and Junos.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python), programming languages (C, C++), automation tools (Ansible), AI development tools (Gemini, Co-pilot, Augment; etc) is a plus.
• Familiarity with container technologies (Docker) and databases (SQL, NoSQL) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Testing of products and solutions - the testing can span platform testing, functional testing, feature testing, solution testing and regression testing.
• Manual testing as well as building and enhancing test automation with scripting
• Design and maintain testbeds, qualify software releases and deliver on quality metrics
• Collaborate with POC eng for any customer specific testing efforts during POCs as needed
• Collaborate with and help Eng teams (SW, HW, Support) in reproducing faults, as needed and regularly update test scripts to prevent recurrence of bugs

Skills

Test planning

Networking concepts

Scripting (Python)

C/C++ programming

Automation tools (Ansible)

AI tools

Docker

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

IOS

IOS-XR

EOS

Junos

Traffic generators

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

Job description

Nexthop AI is hiring a QA/Test engineer to drive end-to-end testing for cutting-edge networking and AI deployments. You will perform platform, functional, and regression tests, build automation scripts, and design testbeds to qualify software releases.

Collaborate with SW/HW and support teams, reproduce faults, and continuously update test scripts to prevent recurrence of issues, contributing to high-quality, scalable AI infrastructure solutions.