Network System Test Engineer (Manual/Solution)

Responsibilities

• Arista Networks is looking for world-class Software Test Engineers (aka System Test engineers) to help us in building the highest quality networking products. If you love networking. If working on complex & scaled out network topologies makes you excited.
• If you like to challenge yourself to find the hard-to-find bugs and if troubleshooting & debugging network and system problems gives you a thrill, this role is tailor made for you.
• At Arista, you'll bring your intelligence, creativity, and drive every day & work with our products exactly how they are going to be used by our end customers and while doing so, make sure that the products are going to work every time.
• Experience & Education: BE/ B.Tech/ME/ M. Tech with networking industry experience.
• Proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans.
• Strong knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, IGMP, PIM SM/SSM, QoS, L2-L3 protocols, Platform validation, HA, QOS, network management.
• Experience with IXIA and/or Spirent test tools desired.
• Work with the developers on your team in creating their plans for automated tests to complement the exploratory testing that you perform.
• Participate in functional specification and software design reviews held by your team and provide customer centric input.
• Work in a highly productive environment along with best of the engineers on Linux platform that cuts a typical development cycle by order of magnitude with a laser focus towards quality.
• Use every means possible to find the bugs in the software and/or hardware being developed by your team.
• Write test plans to validate Arista features and products.
• Design test network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of features and products.
• Execute test plans to verify all aspects of the product. Identify defects and validate resolution.
• Work as an agile member of a combined development and test team, running in short cycles to develop functional software in quick iterations.
• Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.
• We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.
• Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.
• Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.

Additional Information

Who You'll Work With You will work with software development engineers, hardware engineers, field support engineers, product managers, and software test engineers to analyse customer requirements and use cases, gather technical details, create software test plans, and validate that the product meets our customer's requirements. You will also work with our customer support and engineering teams to help address escalated customer issues by reproducing, and debugging those in the lab. The role will provide opportunities to create real impact in the rapidly growing Cloud IT services, and virtualization technologies.

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