JOB DESCRIPTION

What will you do at Ciena?

CIENA's Packet products portfolio comprises of a broad family of products for access and aggregation tiers of the network.  Typically spanning from the Metro edge to the customer edge, these products provide Carrier Ethernet/MPLS/G.8032/TDM services in mobile backhaul, enterprise and residential domains. The RSP (Routing Switching Portfolio) R&D organization is responsible for delivering platform-independent Service Aware Operating System (SAOS), Access products and next-generation virtualized operating system to support Virtualized/SDN/NFV applications.

Gurgaon R&D center has seen exponential growth in various dimensions including development, test and release planning. In last 6 years, Gurgaon test team has grown to be the largest team across globe having ownership of multiple RSP products/releases. Team has huge state-of-art engineering lab in Gurgaon and real time exposure to Tier-1 service provider network deployments.

How You Will Contribute:

• Functional engineer will be responsible for developing functional test strategies, test plans, test execution along with automation suite for platform-independent current and next-generation packet software encompassing the broad spectrum of CIENA's networking products. You will get an opportunity to innovate and influence new technologies that shape the future of Next Generation networks.
• Requires continuous research to ensure software features meet identified standards and product functional requirements.
• Develop, execute, and automate functional test plans to verify product capabilities. Drive authoring of detail feature test-plans, test bed design, test topologies, test Executions. Set up complex test beds based on Project requirements. Assist development engineers in product defect diagnosis/debugging and verification of fixes.
• Develop python scripts for features as part of automated testing.
• Execution of test cases and reporting test results with artifacts using Quality Center (QC)
• Work closely with engineers across teams/geographies to ensure quality for the features.
• FS and Test Plan / script Reviews: Able to host test plan reviews under guidance for assigned features.   Attend and provide comments specific to the functional requirements for FS reviews for assigned features.
• Develop test cases beyond what is described in FS, including compliancy to commercial specs and RFCs, potential and likely interactions with other features, which may involve complex scenarios and topology.
• Position requires troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Understand Software Development Life Cycle.
• Conducts Knowledge Sharing Sessions (Desirable): Basic to moderate topics, including specific product feature or functional areas related the assigned features.
• Able to manage feature and schedule churns with minimal guidance.
• Contribute to team deliverable through involvement in agile scrum development sprints.

The Must Haves:

• 8-12 years of experience in testing.
• Experience with Python/Tcl/Expect is a must.
• Fluency and experience in data communication systems, networking, Ethernet switches.
• Hands-on experience with L2/L3 topologies.
• Strong testing experience in Layer-2/Layer-3 and OAM protocols like BGP, IS-IS, BFD, QoS, HEQoS, EQoS, SAT, TWAMP, MPLS, Segment Routing, VPLS, VPWS, EVPN.
• Experience with traffic generators such as Ixia, Spirent.

The Good To Haves:

• Good knowledge of network design and deployment scenarios in Carrier/Metro Ethernet Space is plus.
• Netconf/GNMI/Telemetry exposure is an added advantage.