SW QA Engineer will be responsible for developing Test plan and Automation for Optical DWDM Equipment and Protocol testing (OTN, GBE, DWDM, NBI Interfaces [YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gRPC], System Security). Perform Manual and Automated tests, enable continuous execution.
Responsibilities- System Test Engineer to actively contribute to Test plan development of Layer 0 (DWDN), Layer 1 (OTN, Ethernet) based Long Haul, DCI & Metro optical systems
- Responsible of L0, L1 protocol-based feature Test executions (ex [not limited to]: FCAPS, NBI Automation, Security
- Active participation and Contribution of System Development Lifecycle processes, understand System requirement and develop detailed Test plan
- Active participation on next gen operating systems and qualify platform w.r.t standard software architectures like Microservices, Container, etc
- Close working with cross-functional team for effective prioritization of Test scenarios (based on customer needs) and enable feature velocity delivery
- Automation of Test scenarios using standard programming platform and enable multiple execution to harden system feature quality
Self-driven professional, capable of owning, and delivering on product qualification
- Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree or higher in ECE, CS, EEE Engineering with good academics
- 2-4 Years of professional work experience.
- Prior experience in Embedded Optical Network Element System Testing – OTN, Ethernet, GMPLS, DWDM, NBI I/F features [CLI, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gRPC], System Security
- Strong skills in Test planning, Execution, and issue tracking (via any configuration management systems)
- Working experience in system control plane & L2/L3 products knowhow is a plus
- Expertise in Python programming (or any equivalent programming language) for automation development
- Work experience in NBI I/F’s (CLI, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gRPC) based embedded system features
- Work experience in testing of Microservices, Container based applications is strongly desired
- Experience in standard Process tools, Configuration management (like JIRA, Confluence, GIT, etc.)
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in ECE, CS, or EEE
- 2-4 years professional work experience
- Experience in embedded optical network element system testing (OTN, Ethernet, DWDM, GMPLS)
- Experience with NBI interfaces (CLI, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gRPC) for embedded systems
- Expertise in Python programming (or equivalent) for automation development
- Strong skills in test planning, execution, and issue tracking (configuration management systems)
- Experience with testing microservices and container-based applications
- Experience with system security and FCAPS-related feature testing
- Experience with process and configuration tools (JIRA, Confluence, GIT)
- Working knowledge of control plane and L2/L3 product concepts
- Self-driven, able to own and deliver product qualification
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