Engineer 2, Product Development Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Participation in internal and external Design sessions and understanding overall project specific requirements and designs.
• Reviews and verifies requirements and design specifications for validity in overall product design, with an emphasis towards automation.
• Work on automation of the existing backlog automatable test cases as well as new feature automation. 
• Build ab-hoc scripts, tools for testing and verification purposes both for functional as well as performance/stress testing. 
• Guiding junior talent in terms of explaining the feature requirements with 
• respect to automation and resolving any technical difficulties the team may face
• Capable of providing high level LOEs for feature automation - Involvement in grooming and planning stories for the sprint
• Working with other QE engineers to drive automation and CI/CD tools and framework
• Perform syntax reviews of automation code.
• If required, capable of participating proactively in the testing and certification process
• Capable to work with Operations on production needs and help support the automated test runs
• Unblocking the team, when need be, thus enabling them to complete their tasks.
• Planning and forecasting of upcoming work items
• Produce documentation/metrics with goal of reducing test intervals and improving quality
• Provide On-call support on a rotation basis for debugging/support and release management
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum concepts
• Contributes to the development of Quality Engineering test philosophies and methodologies.
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.

Skills & Experience:

• 2+ years of experience as an Automation Engineer
• Experience in testing GUI/Web Services/APIs is must.
• Experience in working with the Behave framework
• Experience with coding in Python 
• XML, JSON, Java, Perl, UNIX Scripting languages required
• Experience with using ELK Stack and Splunk
• Experience in Linux/Unix Administration - Be Well versed with Linux OS
• Experience in using test management tools - ALM Octane, Test Rail
• Experience in project management tools (i.e., Rally, JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• In depth knowledge of Kubernetes, Dockerization and microservices
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment, Concourse is a plus
• Experience with using BI-Tools monitoring and analysis - like Prometheus, Grafana, Tableau
• Experience with Message broking services like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Kinesis
• Experience with Database like Cassandra, MySQL, PostgresDomain Specific Skills for vSG:
• Experience with using Wireshark, ability to analyze traces
• Has a strong understanding of the device modem architecture, CMTS and modem provisioning.
• Good understanding of SDN (software defined network),
• Knowledge of high-end servers –200 Gbps data transmission, traffic generators like ixia/T-rex
• Decent understanding of DHCP flow, TCP-UDP protocols, CPE-IPv4/6, Multicast, working knowledge of IS-IS
• Experience with cable industry standard practices, interfaces, operating systems, and protocols such as DOCSIS 3.0/3.1, SIP, and Packet Cable
• Prior extensive experience in IP Service (Ethernet, vLAN, Internet, and Managed Router)
• Experience of validating high-availability production-grade solutions in virtualized environments
• Any exposure to supporting Business KPI’s, network metrics & telemetry with performance analysis is a plus.
• Solid understanding of DDoS, Firewalls and Security event management.

About Our Perks & Benefits:

• We are determined to create an environment where our employees feel valued, understand our business goals, and are motivated. Here's a look at just some of the perks and benefits we make available to our US-based employees:
• Medical & Dental
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Generous paid time off
• Life Milestones - from adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, 
• and more, Comcast supports you at all life stages.
• Courtesy Services - We offer all of our full-time employees in serviceable areas 
• free digital TV and internet.

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