Job Description
What You Will Be Doing
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the use cases/workflows of the MX and vMX solution deployed in the customer environment.
- Participate in requirements/design discussions with Product managers & development team and represent the QA team.
- Craft a test strategy document for the Meraki MX & vMX features and collaborate with other QA and development teams to cover all aspects of the features being developed.
- Execution of tests and reporting test results, and test metrics pertaining to these tests.
- Develop automation scripts in parallel or ahead with feature testing to enable CI/CD (i.e Automation Driven Testing)
- Identify, evaluate and propose new test tools and methodologies for improving system-level product testing.
- E2E ownership from feature system testing to production deployment to monitoring & alerting.
- Provide leadership & mentorship to the MX System Test team and guide junior engineers in developing test-plan and reviewing their work.
You are an ideal candidate if you have:
- 8+ years of experience in Software Quality assurance with at least 3+ years of System testing or integration testing experience in large-scale routing, switching and wireless domain.
- In-depth knowledge of SDWAN, Security, Layer-2(VLAN/802.1Q), Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT) and are at ease to ramp up quickly on new technologies and concepts.
- Proficiency in writing quality code with one of the programming or scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, and Golang.
- Working experience with IPoE - IPv6 and DS
- Fair knowledge with any one of Cloud or Containerized platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, AliCloud, ESXi, NSX-T, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Dockers, etc
- Good understanding of customer deployments and applying those learnings to in-house testing and validations.
- Good understanding of traffic generators and ability to work on suggestions about tools and techniques to improve the testing methodology
- Experience building, supporting, maintaining, and scaling automation in a CI/CD environment.
- Knowledge of end-to-end testing of embedded devices at the system test level
- Experience with traffic profile creation based on traffic mix from different sources
- Effective communication skills and proven track record of collaboration with stakeholders.