Sr. Staff SW QA Engineer - FM/Cloud QA
Summary
Senior QA engineer validating Gigamon’s network visibility fabric product, designing automation suites for performance, scalability, and usability testing across cloud and virtualized environments.
Gigamon is looking for a seasoned quality assurance engineer who will be responsible for validating Gigamon’s network visibility fabric product. As part of a growing, dynamic team, the candidate will thrive in a cross-functional team environment and will contribute towards test and automation efforts for achieving project quality goals.
What you’ll do:
- Provide technical expertise for the system design, operation, usability, and testability of our products with special focus on visibility fabric products.
- Work closely with the functional test teams in developing and improving overall testing approach and strategy
- Work with team for system testing strategy with focus on automation including but not limited to customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
- Design, develop and completely automating Functional, Usability, Performance, Scaling and Stress Testing suites.
- Deliver test automation code and help in driving improvements to our automation coverage.
- Identifying, leveraging, and successfully evangelizing opportunities to improve engineering productivity.
What you’ve done:
- BS in CS or related field
- 10+ years of hands-on quality, development and/or automation experience in virtualization and networking space
- Extensive test automation and scripting skills (Python or some scripting language)
- Hand-on experience with various test automation framework (Robot, Python) and test automation tools (Cypress)
- Demonstrated experience in testing UI/UX performance and usability
- Experienced in various aspects of systems test, and in QA processes
- Demonstrated experience in testing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems including software upgrade, distributed control, and redundancy.
- Knowledge of network management concepts and basic protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, L2/L3 protocols, IPv4, IPv6, NAT, DNS)
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP layer, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL protocols, REST services and hands on experience on testing them.
- Experience in validating deliverables in Enterprise, Datacenter, Public or Private cloud environments (e.g., VMware, OpenStack, AWS)
- Hands on experience in creating test beds for customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
- Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
- Must have a true passion and focus for delivering quality products