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 individuals passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. Were a technology company that leads with our humanity driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact. Why Ciena:

• We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.
• We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
• We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
• We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.
• We know that financial security is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSUs (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
• We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable. We offer flexible paid time off!
• Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for outstanding performance.

How You Will Contribute: Blue Planet www.blueplanet.com, the software division of Ciena, provides best-in-class intelligent automation software and niche professional services to help clients modernize their IT and network operations. Driven by policy and AI-based insights, Blue Planet delivers the closed-loop automation tools needed to align IT and networking processes critical to facilitating digital transformation and an adaptive network.

• Ongoing communication with developers making sure all the new features are being added to the test plan.
• Solid expertise in automated testing of distributed systems including mission critical ones
• Deep knowledge of containerization/virtualization and other infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g., Docker and related, Kubernetes, OpenStack)
• Strong experience in scripting: Shell, JS
• Strong operational experience in Linux environment
• Experience developing using AWS technologies
• Good knowledge of popular CI/CD frameworks (preferably Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Having extensive experience in types of testing -Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Load testing
• Passion for automation, tools development, convenient representation of analytical data.
• Coding E2E Automated tests for the Angular UI frontend with Protractor, Jasmine, and Cucumber, Webdriver.io
• Coding Rest API testing automation
• Coding of System testing with ansible, bash scripting
• Analysis of test results that may require investigating data in the database (writing queries, etc.)
• Full regression execution and reporting
• Ability to do research and find the best and effective way of test automation implementation for required functionality
• Collaboration with stakeholders
• Work in a global team environment
• Attend status calls with stakeholders as needed
• Work closely with the product team

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• Initiative - Youre a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines.
• Agility - you are readily able to make key decisions and manage competing and ever-changing priorities.
• Communication expertise - you possess the ability to influence and tailor your message and ideas to the audience to ensure understanding and agreement.
• The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team - you thrive in a multi-disciplinary team environment, but are comfortable working independently as required.
• Relationship builder - with an ability to influence, youre able to quickly develop trusted connections and get work done across multi sites.
• A commitment to innovation - you keep abreast of the market and competitive developments and are always keen to formulate new insights and problem solve.
• A passion for coaching - fully understanding and appreciating the power of the mentorship role.

Must Have:

• Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Protractor, Jasmine, Cucumber, Webdriver.io
• Backend testing: Rest API testing automation tools, Postman/Newman, Jasmine
• Load testing: JMeter, Grafana + Prometheus
• Container management: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack
• Testing Theory: terminology, testing types, asynchronous automated testing
• Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab
• Cloud Environments: AWS, Azure, Google cloud
• Version control system: Git, Bitbucket, SVN
• System Testing Automation with: Bash, Shell, Python, Ansible scripting
• Hands-on experience of CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance
• Solid operational and administrator experience with Unix operation systems
• Understanding of Web application and Microservice solution architecture
• Strong abilities to rapidly learn new sophisticated technological concepts and apply knowledge in daily activities.
• Excellent written (documentation) and interpersonal communication skills (English).
• Strong abilities to work as part of a team or independently with little supervision.
• Experienced working as part of an Agile scrum team and with DevOps process

Good To Have

• Frontend programming/markup languages: Typescript/JavaScript, html, CSS, SVG
• Frontend development frameworks/libraries: Angular 2+, Node.js/npm, D3.js, gulp
• Backend programming/markup languages: Java/J2EE
• Backend development frameworks/libraries: maven, Spring Data/Security/MVC
• App Server: Apache Tomcat
• DB: Neo4j (graph DB), PostgreSQL+TimescaleDB
• Other Skills: ElasticSearch, Drools, Kafka integration, REST (on Spring MVC), SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2)
• System testing: Bash, Shell, Python, Ansible scripting
• Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts, etc.
• Domain: Telecom, OSS, Inventory

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.