Regular Network Engineer automation; Python

Project description

Our client is looking for Software Developers in Test with Networking and Test Automation skillset, within the Team which is currently developing new automation work for our Customer. This Team has the ownership to define the process, debug all aspects of the Products' functionality in its release cycle and work closely together with our Test and Framework Development Team to identify root causes, raise issues accordingly to feature or test developers and triage problems.

This team also collaborates closely with the Customer's Developer Team on feature issues and thus reduce the number of flaws in the Product. The Customer relies on us to keep a healthy and real PASS rate of the tests in order to maintain a high performance product and demonstrable quality metrics (Quality Gate). The process needs to scale up to the agile release strategy of the Customer's products.

Thus, the ideal candidate has deep knowledge of software development in testing / test automation, computer networking, as well as troubleshooting skills necessary to understand and debug efficiently the various testing scenarios (strong preference is Python, as the framework and tests are written in Python). Prior experience with distributed systems is highly desirable.

• Primarily contribute to new test automation and framework development by writing complex Python scripts, tightly integrated within a state-of-the-art PTest everything-as-code infrastructure.
• Contribute to the quality strategy of the products by developing and maintaining the Quality Release Gate process.
• Run and debug automated integration and system tests in Python per release needs.
• Work closely with the engineering team to isolate and resolve defects in a timely manner.
• Work closely with our local team to debug framework and test related issues.
• Create bug reports when issues arise and track them through completion.
• Triage failures per severity and prioritize as necessary, when needed.

• Demonstrated experience in product support and/or product release support processes.
• Good Experience in testing / debugging issues for highly scalable, distributed systems and data center products.
• Hands-on experience in Python Development - 3 years minimum. Knowledge of OOP, SOLID, design patterns, DRY etc.
• Good (CCNA, CCNP level preferred) knowledge of computer networking: L2/L3 network protocols, Ethernet, TCP/IP, switching/routing algorithms, data center networks, BGP.
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the following vendors' products for 1 year minimum:
  Cisco IOS/NXOS, Arista, Cumulus.
• Atlassian or equivalent suite.
• Good knowledge of GNU/Linux operating systems, shell scripting and command line tools.
• Good troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Ability to define independently priorities, objectives, and tasks.
• Proactive and self-starter personality. Able to work in a startup Customer environment. Motivated and top-performer.

• Previous experience with process definition.
• EVPN + VXLAN.
• Experience with RESTful APIs programming and related technologies.
• Familiar with virtualization/containerization technologies.
• Familiarity with multiple Network Operating Systems such as Cisco NXOS, Arista EOS, Cumulus Linux, Open Switch, SONiC.
• Previous experiences on writing tools or frameworks to facilitate product testing.
• Hands-on Spine-leaf datacenter architectures, BGP, OSPF, Automation, Juniper, Cisco Switches/Routers, Arista, Automation QA, VMware vCenter, VPN technologies (eVPN), VxLAN.