About Network Infrastructure 

The mission of the Network Infrastructure (NI) Business Group is to be the most trusted partner for the world’s most critical network infrastructure. NI will respond to the ever-increasing demand for networks with higher capacity, greater reliability, faster speeds, and lower costs. 

Job Position Description 

The WaveSuite team is building a portfolio of applications that provide commissioning, assurance, fulfillment, and analytics for optical network as a service (NaaS). We are looking for highly motivated test specialists to deliver innovative end-to-end virtualization solutions for optical network operators. This is a hands-on technical role, working directly with developers, architects and product management in a fast-paced, customer-driven Agile environment.

 

Qualifications: (Education, Technical Skills/Knowledge)

Have a degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience Have 5+ years of automation and manual testing experience, preferably using Agile methodologies with iterative deliverables Are well-versed in a wide range of test domains (functional, system, scale, performance, security, etc.) with exposure to OSS/BSS, REST API and GUI systems Are passionate about software quality with a proven track record of innovation, risk optimization, flexibility and resourcefulness while collaborating with the development team and advocating for customers Can independently identify and analyze options, solve problems and make decisions based on organizational goals and business objectives Have excellent troubleshooting skills, identifying, characterizing, and investigating issues and driving them to timely resolution working with internal peers and world-wide customer-facing teams Understand networking and protocol concepts (transport, routing, cloud SDN), ideally with experience in optical networking (e.g. DWDM, OTN) and optical service architecture (e.g. L1CS). 

You’ll need to have experience:

In microservices with RESTful APIs, database technologies, cloud-native containerized applications, Python, and Jenkins and Git-based tools Working with UNIX/Linux environments. Delivering well tested user-focused software in a continuous integration environment. 

It would be amazing if you have experience in:

Working in the telecommunications domain, shipping products to Tier-1 Carrier customers.  Apache Kafka or any Pub/Sub platforms.  Deploying, running and troubleshooting cloud-native applications in containers e.g. Docker, Kubernetes or Mesos. Working with TDD/BDD/DDD

 

 

Understanding customer optical network and service models along with the proposed WaveSuite solution from multiple test perspectives Working closely with team members executing the Agile Scrum Software Development Methodology integrating per sprint deliverables into a cohesive hardened release Designing and implementing manual and/or automated tests to validate functionality, scalability and stability of the WaveSuite application Identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance test infrastructure, automation coverage, network element simulation Acting as a customer advocate to identify, characterize, trouble shoot and evaluate fixes for defects that may impact the customer experience Planning, executing and tracking of all test and quality assurance activities for projects in an iterative delivery process, using judgment to strategically balance quality, schedule and cost Working on an end-to-end system that integrates a GUI with third-party software with custom made APIs with back-end software that interacts with the optical networking equipment