SVT/PV Engineer Routing/IP 2

Ciena is a global leader in high-speed connectivity, dedicated to a people-first approach. The SVT/PV Engineer Routing/IP 2 role involves developing comprehensive test plans, executing test cases, and collaborating with various engineering teams to ensure thorough testing and resolution of issues in customer-focused solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Review System requirements and functional specifications and develop comprehensive solution test plans to validate customer use-cases and detailed feature test plans to validate product capabilities
• Plan and build test environments for feature and solution level test execution while considering potential and likely interactions across different features of the product
• Execute test cases, analyze test results, file defect reports and retest defect resolution
• Work and interact closely with engineers from embedded software, network management software, and hardware teams to ensure thorough testing of customer focused end-to-end solutions, compliance to specifications and resolution of issues found during test phase
• Host test plan reviews for assigned features, as well as to contribute to test plan reviews held by other team members
• Build in-depth knowledge of product architecture and develop ability to root-cause issues
• Contribute towards automation of test cases and execute already automated test cases

Requirements:

• Employer will accept a Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking and Systems Administration, or related field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in a Computer Systems Engineers/Architects-related occupation
• Position requires 24 months of experience in the following: System testing in the telecommunications and networking domain
• Layer-2/Layer-3 networking protocols, including IPV4, IPV6, VLANS, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, ICMP, ARP, NTP, NAT and L3VPN
• Networking devices and tools such as routers, switches, servers, and traffic generators such as Ixia or Spirent
• Fiber optics and data center networking products
• OLT and ONU devices, including performing end-to-end system and solution testing for Passive Optical Networks
• Planning, building, and maintaining testbed infrastructure to ensure effective testing
• Performing both manual and automated testing, troubleshooting data communication systems, network configurations, and simulated topologies
• Developing test plans and procedures for feature test, acceptance tests, solution test, and regression tests based on functional specifications, system requirements, and customer use cases
• Triaging test failures, performing failure analysis to validate software releases for networking devices
• Filing defects and working with development team to get bug fixes; and validating the bug fixes through re-testing
• Collecting key metrics, such as test pass rates and priorities, and generating software quality reports
• Developing test automation for network devices, with experience in working with test automation frameworks to create test libraries and scripts using python
• Git or similar version control systems
• Replicating customer-reported issues in a lab environment