Roles & Responsibilities
- QA Engineer will be responsible for developing functional test strategies, detailed test plans and automation of L0 and L1-based Optical Muxponder/Switchponder applications being a part of the Agile Teams.
- QA Engineer will be involved in testing different protocols like Otn Dwdm, RSTP, etc, and interfaces like Netconf, Restconf, gRPC, etc.
- Design, develop, and execute detailed functional test plans to verify various product features and capabilities ensuring that the complex customer configurations are covered extensively, and the system functionalities work seamlessly when deployed.
- Active participation and Contribution to System Development Lifecycle processes (Product/system requirement review discussions, Software Design implementation discussions, Work with the Product management team for Customer scenarios and use cases, to convert them to the detailed Test plan.
- Setting up complex test topologies based on the feature requirements and optimizing the gear for the best representation of the customer deployment configurations.
- Write Automated tests and enable on-demand execution of the automated tests as per the project requirement.
- Cross-functional coordination for the features owned to ensure great quality product delivery by the team.
- Good troubleshooting and debugging skills.
Required Expertise/Skills
- 6+ years experience in Manual and Automation.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in ECE, CS, or EEE Engineering with good academics.
- Requires expertise in testing Embedded optical network systems, In-depth knowledge of L1 layer protocols like Otn, Fiber Channel, Ethernet, SONET/Sdh, DWDM, interfaces like Netconf, Restconf, gRPC, etc.
- Strong skills in Test plan design and issue tracking.
- Working experience in system control plane protocols like OSPF, RSTP, MPLS, LDP, and other L2/L3 protocols is a strong plus.
- Expertise in Python programming (or any equivalent programming language) for automation development.
- Working with test traffic generators like Viavi, Spirent, Ixia, etc.
- Work experience in testing Microservices, Container container-based applications is strongly desired.
- Experience in standard Process tools and configuration management (like JIRA, GIT, etc.)
- Flexible, innovative, self-driven.
- Structured and thorough with analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Highly motivated team player committed to System Quality.
This position requires direct or indirect access to certain confidential information, hardware, software, technology, or technical information (referred to here as Export-Controlled Information) controlled under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All personnel in this position must be eligible to or be able to obtain authorization from the appropriate agency to access applicable Export-Controlled Information. The U.S. Department of Commerce currently requires a foreign person with a most recent citizenship or permanent residency of Sudan, Ukraine, or a country currently designated in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 (Supplement No. 1 to Part 740, Title 15)
to have an export control license to access our Export-Controlled Information, unless they meet certain exemptions provided under U.S. export control laws and regulations. The list of applicable countries in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2may be updated by the U.S. government from time to time. The current processing time for an export control license is approximately 4 to 6 months.
Your employment or engagement with Infinera shall be contingent on verifying your eligibility or requirement for obtaining a necessary license and/or authorization from the appropriate agency. You will be required to provide certain information for export control compliance assessment purposes, and your information will be reviewed by Infinera's hiring and export control teams to ensure compliance with the U.S. export control laws and regulations. Infinera will collect necessary documents (such as proof of citizenship etc.) to assess license/authorization requirements if you are offered and accept the position.
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