Introduction
You will be a QA Developer who will be owning manual and automation QA responsibilities for product feature enhancement into Sev One - Network Performance management which allows customers to view their whole IT systems from application through containers and storage.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an SDN QA Developer you will apply your deep expertise

• To innovate new performance and functional tests for the NPM products both on the frontend and backend
• Automate functional and performance testcases using opensource tools
• Participate in innovative projects/POCs to drive customer solutions
• You will be part of strong, modern team culture driven to create world class development and deployment environments, delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers.

As a QA engineer you will.

• Performs usability, functional, regression test, system testing and performance test
• Executes and updates test cases and scenarios
• Evaluate and test software bug fixes, extensions, and features
• Develop and execute functional and performance automation scripts using open source tools
• Work closely with Product Management, Development and Architecture to understand and guide product features and testing
• Contributes to the development of new theories and methods for automation in QA
• Leads, attends and participates in various Engineering meetings for the team
• Manages testing environment and test data using various tools such as Jenkins & GIT

The ideal candidate has extensive technology and QA experience involving SDN, Networking
Orchestration, Openstack and Virtual network architecture. Candidate should have proven
experience in application development agile methodology related to n/w orchestration,
network virtualization.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
9 to 12 years of IT Experience

• Proven experience in Java / PHP / Bash scripting / Python / Json / YAML
• Experience in test automation using selenium , playwright or robot test automation framework.
• experience with API testing using postman or other applicable tools.
• Exhibited excellent trouble shooting skills
• Linux admin level skills
• Basic ability to create/understand MySQL queries
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Demonstrated ability to quickly assess impact of new features on the current architecture
• Strong customer focus to ensure meeting customer requirements
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven Record of developing enterprise class products and applications.
• Experience with cloud computing technologies - AWS, Azure, Vmware and Softlayer
• Knowledge on Cloud Architectures - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, Docker.
• Understanding of load balancers, routers, call manager, switches and knowledge of networking protocols such as routing, DNS, and SNMP

About Business UnitSoftware Defined Networking (SDN) Business unit focuses on software based networking, an architecture approach that enables network to be intelligently and centrally controlled using software with main focus on automating network functions, allowing for simpler provisioning and management of network resources, everywhere from the data center to the campus to the edge.
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