Job Description

Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one - your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies. Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified below and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

We are looking for stellar test & automation engineer in "IP routing and networking domain" to test platform & L2/L3 feature sets in distributed & disaggregated chassis systems.

We believe in the power of people. We are a network strategy and technology company that is motivated by making a difference in people's lives - their productivity, their creativity, their health and comfort. That's why our test engineers help sanitize technologies that allow people to do phenomenal things.

Ciena live and breath innovation and our cutting edge technologies/product-lines have been part of the critical infrastructure running within the most advanced companies in the world.

The Responsibilities and Activities include:

• Engage engineering teams, product line managers and product owners to transform high-level requirements into optimized test coverage.
• Develop test strategies to fully exercise Packet Optical Transport product; System level, Routing and Switching, Provisioning, Performance and Scale, Fault management, Network traffic integrity.
• Write effective automation to cover different feature sets to minimize continuous manual efforts.
• Manual & automation testing for various feature sets within agile methodology and involve software designers for quick resolution of critical and blocking bugs.
• Test coverage per release and software requirements and fulfill gaps whenever required by manual & automation testing.
• Analysis of sanity/regression results and make sure to triage software issues with designers within time for quality executions.
• Use test engineering knowledge to create system level tests to drive improvements in scalability, performance & high availability.
• Coordinate with peer scrum teams and technology leaders to ensure excellent cross-component & cross-scrum QA strategy and coverage for platform & software feature-sets.
• Understand customer use-cases & deployment scenarios to have better test alignment with release & present customer-demos when required.
• Interact with PLM, architects and release managers to harden requirements.
• Contribute to IETF and company's intellectual properties (Patents, White papers). Watch for industry standards and data application trends & alert senior management of potential roadblocks in product development.
• Exchange vast experience/ideas with team to promote learning.

What technical experience and personal skills are required for this role?

• Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Progressive experience in System & Networking Testing role.
• Working experience with python automation. Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Experience in development environments - GIT, Jenkins, Grafana.
• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall models of development.
• Experience in both manual and automated testing environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills associated with service provider, enterprise and carrier software solutions in general.
• Excellent written (documentation) and interpersonal communication skills (English);
• Strong desire and abilities to work as part of a team or independently with less supervision.
• Strong abilities to rapidly learn new sophisticated technological concepts and apply knowledge in daily activities.
• Experience working with UNIX/Linux/RHEL/Ubuntu and/or any other server OS, be it on bare metal and/or Virtual Machine, and system admin functions.
• Knowledge of system level, Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols (like MPLS, IGP, BGP, Segment Routing, EVPN etc).
• Validated experience with Python, Java, JavaScripting, CORBA, TCL/TK/Expect and/or REST API and associated tools is highly desirable.
• Knowledge and/or work experience related to network virtualization software like Open vSwitch, vRouter, etc. is highly desirable.
• Experience in NBI -SNMP, NETCONF, GRPC is highly desirable.
• Experience working with docker-container based systems is highly desirable.
• Experience working with Layers 2 and/or 3 technologies on Ciena's CES, and/or 6500 platforms would be an asset.

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

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