JOB DESCRIPTION

How You Will Contribute:

As Telecommunications Quality Assurance Systems Engineer, you will help develop verification strategies in relation to customer and telecommunications/networking industry requirements insuring continued overall system quality delivered with every release.

• You will learn about the product development lifecycle process and understand the benefits of which engineering methodology best represents the company needs.
• You will build the essentials to develop effective test strategies and automation and build out system applications and solutions in a laboratory environment to establish a sound base upon which to grow evolving networking test strategies.
• You will test new features introduced with every system release and report test results to databases.
• You will perform regression system level tests to guarantee no degradation exists from release to release, including backwards compatibility test coverage.
• You will report bugs into databases to identify issues found through effective testing and help drive closure towards attaining compliance with customer expectations.
• You will maintain and help grow lab system environments to scale with the evolution of the product line.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• The ability to build trusted customer relationships quickly.
• A sense of urgency – what’s important to the customer is equally important to you.  You make getting things done a priority.
• The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team.
• You embrace change – thriving in a diverse environment of ever-changing priorities and sometimes stressful situations.
• Curiosity to understand new technologies, analyze, troubleshoot and resolve customer concerns.
• A dedication to ongoing learning – not only related specifically to your role, but also other technical concerns that may impact your customers.
• Your self-motivated – always seeking out and methodically tackling sophisticated technical issues.

The Must Haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science coupled with a demonstrated ability to work with Linux based OS and automate test cases using Object Oriented Language, preferably Python or interface with JSON files and Mongo databases.
• Technical knowledge of PON systems.
• Familiarity with test automation tools and environments
• Experience working with various network interfaces to communicate with test equipment, such as, Serial, GPIB, USB and Ethernet.
• Proven debugging skills.
• Familiarity with test and network equipment command line languages such as vendor specific API & SCPI as well as with physical layer aspects of fiber optics.
• An understanding of customer and industry requirements stemming from Telecom Carriers and Cable Providers, as well as, Standards from IEEE, ITU-T, DOCSIS and Telcordia.