Module Lead - Optical Test Engineer

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Why Ciena: 

• We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.
• We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
• We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
• We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.
• We know that financial security is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
• We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable. We offer flexible paid time off!
• Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

How You Will Contribute: 

CIENA's Optical Networks products portfolio comprises of a broad family of products for Aggregation, Metro and Core networks of Telecom Carriers and GCNs. Successful candidate will play a vital role in advancing our automation-focused test strategies for system-level validation, developing feature & solution test strategies, test plans, and test execution for Ciena’s Optical Network products based on technologies such as OTN Transport/Switching, and associated Network Management System.

• Evaluate System requirements & Functional specifications and develop comprehensive solution test plans to validate customer use-cases and product capabilities. Conduct and participate in peer reviews for Test plans documents and Automation Scripts.
• Actively develop automation scripts using Automation Framework to validate customer use case scenarios and workflows, continue to evolve the capabilities of already developed automation scripts.
• Execute system level tests for network elements using fully automated, semi-automated and manual test methods, providing coverage across all North bound user interfaces such as CLI, Netconf, Rest, gRPC etc. as well as Network Management Systems.
• Analyze and characterize defects found during test execution and work closely with the design on debugging and closure of issues.
• Plan and build test lab environments for solution-level test execution.
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on Core Optical networks technologies.

What Does Ciena Expect of You? 

• Initiative – You’re a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines. 
• Agility – you are readily able to make key decisions and manage competing and ever-changing priorities. 
• Communication expertise – you possess the ability to influence and tailor your message and ideas to the audience to ensure understanding and agreement. 
• The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team – you thrive in a multi-disciplinary team environment, but are comfortable working independently as required. 
• Relationship builder – with an ability to influence, you’re able to quickly develop trusted connections and get work done across multi sites. 
• A commitment to innovation – you keep abreast of the market and competitive developments and are always keen to formulate new ideas and problem solve. 
• A passion for coaching – fully understanding and appreciating the power of the mentorship role.

The Must Haves:

• Bachelors or Masters in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or Optical Communications with 6+ years of relevant experience of system test in telecommunications domain.
• Expertise in OTN Transport and Automation Development.
• Fluent in automation language such as Python for test automation
• Ability to understand customers’ needs, expectations, and perspective. Knowledge of Transport Network Design of Telecom Service Providers and Content Provider Networks, and experience of working with R&D team on product defects in Customer Networks.
• Experience in test effort estimation and captive planning based on Requirement Specifications.
• Proficient in Test Planning to validate Telecom Network Solutions and Use Case Scenarios that include interactions of different product features, including NMS
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; experience of working closely with design engineers for debugging of product defects.
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills to effectively communicate and collaborate with a global multisite team environment.
• Proficient with a wide range of test equipment and Knowledge of relevant ITU-T, IETF, IEEE and ANSI standards.

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