SR SW QA Engineer - 10420

Position: SR Software QA Engineer. Experience: 5 to 12 years. Location: Chennai. Job Description: Excellent QA experience in most of the following areas: Experience in testing cloud-based applications; Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure; Experience and understanding of Kubernetes, Docker and Clustering solutions; Experience in creating end-to-end test strategy and test planning; Plan, Develop, Execute and Automate Test suites for our Cloud based Networking applications and Services; Perform functional, integration, performance and scale, load validations; Work closely with Product Owners, Development, CloudOps and other teams on the above; Review customer deployments and customer found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage; Automation of features from an end-to-end perspective - API and GUI; Review automation code written by other team members, give feedback; API Testing (Functional, Security aspects and Scale/Performance) (REST preferred); Hands-on programming using Java, Python, ROBOT, Perl, Go or TCL/TK; Experience in testing wired Networking protocols like VLAN, IP, STP, TCP, UDP, VRRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, SPBM etc.; Experience in testing Enterprise Wireless and Wired networks; Experience in security concepts and protocols such as AAA framework, 802.1X, Captive portal, VPN, Firewalls, SSL etc.; UI test automation experience using selenium or playwright; Knowledge of Virtualization and Hypervisor (ESX, Hyper-V); Experience using network testing tools like Wireshark, Ethereal or Jmeter; Proficiency in Linux/Unix OS; Good Analytical and Communication Skills; Experience or exposure to AI, Machine Learning and related tools; Expected Skill Sets/Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; 3 to 12 years of Experience in Network Management/Orchestration domain; Good debugging skills in a Microservices oriented architecture based product; A detailed understanding of cloud technologies, containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes; Hands on experience with Performance Testing - Experience with Performance Testing & Monitoring using tools such as Jmeter, Locust etc.; Expert in API Testing: API Contract Testing using Mocks, API Automation etc., Knowledge on relevant widely used Tools for the same; UI Automation using Selenium, Robot framework and Python; Applied experience with version control systems such as Git, Github; Comfortable with SQL/NoSQL/In-memory databases such as PostgreSQL/Redis/Ignite; Knowledge on monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus

Responsibilities

Plan, Develop, Execute and Automate Test suites for our Cloud based Networking applications and Services; Perform functional, integration, performance and scale, load validations; Work closely with Product Owners, Development, CloudOps and other teams on the above; Review customer deployments and customer found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage; Automation of features from an end-to-end perspective - API and GUI; Review automation code written by other team members, give feedback; API Testing (Functional, Security aspects and Scale/Performance) (REST preferred)

Requirements

Experience: 5 to 12 years; Excellent QA experience in most of the following areas; Experience in testing cloud-based applications; Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure; Experience and understanding of Kubernetes, Docker and Clustering solutions; Experience in creating end-to-end test strategy and test planning; Plan, Develop, Execute and Automate Test suites for our Cloud based Networking applications and Services; Perform functional, integration, performance and scale, load validations; Work closely with Product Owners, Development, CloudOps and other teams on the above; Review customer deployments and customer found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage; Automation of features from an end-to-end perspective - API and GUI; Review automation code written by other team members, give feedback; API Testing (Functional, Security aspects and Scale/Performance) (REST preferred); Hands-on programming using Java, Python, ROBOT, Perl, Go or TCL/TK; Experience in testing wired Networking protocols like VLAN, IP, STP, TCP, UDP, VRRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, SPBM etc.; Experience in testing Enterprise Wireless and Wired networks; Experience in security concepts and protocols such as AAA framework, 802.1X, Captive portal, VPN, Firewalls, SSL etc.; UI test automation experience using selenium or playwright; Knowledge of Virtualization and Hypervisor (ESX, Hyper-V); Experience using network testing tools like Wireshark, Ethereal or Jmeter; Proficiency in Linux/Unix OS; Good Analytical and Communication Skills; Experience or exposure to AI, Machine Learning and related tools; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; 3 to 12 years of Experience in Network Management/Orchestration domain; Good debugging skills in a Microservices oriented architecture based product; A detailed understanding of cloud technologies, containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes; Hands on experience with Performance Testing - Experience with Performance Testing & Monitoring using tools such as Jmeter, Locust etc.; Expert in API Testing: API Contract Testing using Mocks, API Automation etc., Knowledge on relevant widely used Tools for the same; UI Automation using Selenium, Robot framework and Python; Applied experience with version control systems such as Git, Github; Comfortable with SQL/NoSQL/In-memory databases such as PostgreSQL/Redis/Ignite; Knowledge on monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus

Nice to have

REST (preferred)