Principal QA Engineer - Routing Protocol Testing- BGP/OSPF/MPLS

Job Description:

Extremes Service Provider OS Engineering team is a group of talented engineers dedicated to building scalable, reliable, and secure servicer provider-based solutions / products. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Principal SQA Engineer to understand the customer solutions and come up with test design / strategy for both functional and system solutions testing. This role is accountable for ensuring that all our system environments are architected, provisioned, and fully automated to support comprehensive end to end validation workflowsincluding functional verification, integration robustness checks, and high throughput performance and scalability testing:

Educational Qualification and Experience:

B.E / B. Tech, MCA, M.E / M. Tech in CS/EEE/ECE with at least 13-20 years of relevant experience

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Strong Troubleshooting skills and working knowledge into VxLAN, BGP-EVPN and L3VPN (BGP/MPLS VPN), L2VPN (Pseudowire, VPLS) technologies

Strong Troubleshooting skills and working knowledge into Bridge Domain, VLAN, LACP, and QoS (Access / Fabric / CPU) technologies

Working Knowledge of Multi-chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG / MCT) Technologies

Working Knowledge of Layer-3 Protocols - IPv4/IPv6, OSPFv2/v3, IS-IS, BGP4, IGMP, PIM-SM/SSM

Working Knowledge of L2 protocols- (STP/MSTP/RSTP, 802.1q/ad/aq, 802.3ah, 802.1ag/Y.1731 (Ethernet OAM/CFM))

Strong Knowledge of product verification methodologies and strategies

Experience in performance and throughput testing

Experience in building system / customer solutions testbeds, test plans, and test validations

Experience in working with test tools like Ixia, STC and packet sniffers

Experience in scripting languages like Python, Perl, Tcl and Tk

Experience with Defect tracking tools and test case management tools like Quality Centre

Experience in version control systems like CVS, GitHub and test automation IDE Framework

Experience in tools development to optimize functional and system qualifications

Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Complete exposure to the entire Product Life Cycle is a MUST

Network technology, TCP&IP stack/L2 Switching/L3 Routing etc

Open API/ OpenConfig NETCONF/Streaming Telemetry/GNMI/GRPC

Expert in Data centre Networking Protocols and technologies

Expert programming knowledge in scripting language

A quick learner with excellent communication skills

Tenacious approach towards problem solving

Eager to learn, adopt the latest technologies and best practices

Exceptional Written/Verbal Communication Skills