Network System Test Engineer (Manual/Solution)

About the Role

Arista Networks is seeking world-class Software Test Engineers (aka System Test engineers) to contribute to building high-quality networking products. This role is designed for individuals passionate about networking, excited by complex and scaled-out network topologies, and driven to find hard-to-find bugs and troubleshoot network and system problems. You will work with products in the same manner as end-customers, ensuring reliability. Your focus will be on identifying critical bugs not easily exposed by automated unit and product-level tests, in collaboration with engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Work embedded with multiple engineering teams, side-by-side with developers, POC engineers, and account teams.
• Explore, find, and fix software problems before they reach customers.
• Champion software quality.
• Create test methodologies and write test plans.
• Work with developers to create plans for automated tests to complement exploratory testing.
• Participate in functional specification and software design reviews, providing customer-centric input.
• Use all means possible to find bugs in the software and/or hardware being developed.
• 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, operating in short cycles.
• Analyze customer requirements and use cases, gather technical details, and create software test plans.
• Validate that the product meets customer requirements.
• Address escalated customer issues by reproducing and debugging them in the lab, working with customer support and engineering teams.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Linux platform
• Networking industry experience
• Ethernet
• RSTP/MSTP
• VLANs
• IP Routing
• TCP/IP
• OSPF
• IS-IS
• BGP
• IGMP
• PIM SM/SSM
• QoS
• L2-L3 protocols
• Platform validation
• HA
• IXIA and/or Spirent test tools (desired)
• Cloud networking
• Data center networking
• Campus networking
• Routing environments
• CloudVision
• EOS (an advanced network operating system)
• Virtualization technologies

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech/ME/M.Tech degree.
• Proven expertise in creating test methodologies.
• Proven expertise in 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.