Job Description

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual\xe2\x80\x99s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We\xe2\x80\x99re a technology company that leads with our humanity\xe2\x80\x94driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Introducing Ciena

For more than 30 years, Ciena has been a global leader in networking strategy. Our technology is part of the critical infrastructure that enables innovations that wow us - like autonomous driving, and those we take for granted - like mobile-streaming video. These advancements in technology are possible because of the pioneering approach at Ciena. We are at the forefront of cutting-edge technology that makes the internet itself work. We build adaptive networks that grow smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day \xe2\x80\x93 much like Ciena itself.

Why Ciena:

Achieve your ideal career at the forefront of innovation with Ciena. We know the importance of life outside of work, which is why our employees enjoy flexible paid time off and the freedom of working remotely. Ciena empowers our teams with competitive salaries and incentives, community volunteer programs, professional development resources, and support for our mental and physical health\xe2\x80\x94all experienced within a diverse and inclusive culture. To put it simply, we\xe2\x80\x99re a technology company driven by our humanity.

What will you do at Ciena?

CIENA\'s Packet products portfolio comprises of a broad family of products for access and aggregation tiers of the network. Typically spanning from the Metro edge to the customer edge, these products provide Carrier Ethernet/MPLS/G.8032/TDM services in mobile backhaul, enterprise and residential domains. The RSP (Routing Switching Portfolio) R&D organization is responsible for delivering platform-independent Service Aware Operating System (SAOS), Access products and next-generation virtualized operating system to support Virtualized/SDN/NFV applications.

Gurgaon R&D centre has seen exponential growth in various dimensions including development, test and release planning. In last 6 years, Gurgaon test team has grown to be the largest team across globe having ownership of multiple RSP products/releases. Team has huge state-of-art engineering lab in Gurgaon and real time exposure to Tier-1 service provider network deployments.

How You Will Contribute:

• Scale and Performance engineer shall be responsible for validating feature scale and performance, run manual or automation S&P tests against all supported features developed across Ciena\'s Routing and Switching platform portfolio.
• Work involves scale and performance validation along robustness test and automate test plans to verify product capabilities. Execution of feature scale test-plans, test bed design, test topologies, test Executions. Set up complex test beds based on Project requirements. Assist development engineers in product defect diagnosis/debugging and verification of fixes.
• Day-to-day activities include planning, designing, automating, and validating tests around scale, performance, longevity and robustness tests across all supported features or feature combinations (Uni-D and Multi-D) to validate system behaviours at limit and endurance. Develop test-plans, plan and design test-topologies and test methodologies with optimal resource usage.
• Prepare/Automate robust, quality, S&P scripts with robustness and longevity also in perspective with optimal CPU and memory measurement reading mechanisms, and feature/systemic performance measurement mechanisms.
• Use JIRA to file defects following proper template, and all logs/debug command output/traffic flow footprint, etc. relevant to the problem description.
• Assist development engineers in product defect diagnosis/debugging/reproduction and verification of fixes.
• Execution of test cases and reporting test results with artifacts using Test Rail
• Work closely with engineers across teams/geographies to ensure quality for the features.
• Position requires troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Understand Software Development Life Cycle.
• Conducts Knowledge Sharing Sessions (Desirable): Basic to moderate topics, including specific product feature or functional areas related the assigned features.
• Able to manage feature and schedule churns with minimal guidance.
• Contribute to team deliverable through involvement in agile scrum development sprints.

The Must Haves:

• 8-12 years of experience in telecommunication and testing.
• Experience with Python/Tcl/Expect is a must.
• Fluency and experience in data communication systems, networking, Ethernet switches and Routers.
• Hands-on experience with L2/L3 topologies.
• Strong testing experience in some of the Layer-2 protocols like Ethernet Switching, VLANs, G.8032, CFM,Y.1731,BFD,VPLS,VPWS,QoS and Layer-3 protocols like BGP, IS-IS, OSPF
• Working experience in areas like EVPN, L2VPN,L3VPN and in Transport Protocols like MPLS,SR,LDP,RSVP
• Experience with traffic generators such as Ixia, Spirent.

The Good To Haves:

• Good knowledge of network design and deployment scenarios in Carrier/Metro Ethernet Space is plus.
• Netconf/GNMI/Telemetry exposure is an added advantage.

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.

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