SVT/PV Engineer Routing/IP

Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one – your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies. Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL.

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 Packet Software and Access R&D organization is taking care of delivering platform-independent Service Aware Operating System (SAOS), Access products and next-generation virtualized operating system to support Virtualized/SDN/NFV applications.

Functional engineer will be taking care of 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 craft the future of Next Generation networks.

Responsibilities include:

• Requires continuous research to ensure software features meet identified standards and product functional requirements

• Develop, complete and automate functional test plans to verify product capabilities

• Execution of test cases and reporting test results with artifacts using Quality Center (QC)

• Work closely with engineers across teams to ensure quality for the features.

• It is required need basis to coordinate activities with North America test team.

• FS and Test Plan / script Reviews: Able to host test plan reviews under mentorship.

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.

Required Skills

• Position requires solving problems and problem-solving skills

• Understand Software Development Process

• Able to think key scenarios, write test cases, automate & implement test cases.

• Team oriented; strong interpersonal skills.

• Proven communications skills, both verbal and written, to optimally communicate/collaborate with remote QA and Development teams

• Strong dedication to product excellence and quality

• Adaptability: Able to handle feature and schedule churns

• Automation Experience preferable in Python.

• Experience with Routing & Switching technologies at least at concept level.

Required Experience

• BE / B.Tech. (EE/CS) Degree

• 1-2 years of experience in telecommunications and testing.

• Proficiency and experience in data communication systems, networking, Ethernet switches.

• Hands-on experience with L2/L3 topologies would be add-on.

• Experience with at least one networking protocols would be a huge plus: TCP/IP, Ethernet, 802.1Q, GRE, VxLAN, VLAN, L2VPN, L3VPN, MPLS, G.8032, BGP, Network Security

• Experience with traffic generators such as Ixia, Spirent would be plus.

• Knowledge of network design and deployment scenarios in Carrier/Metro Ethernet Space is plus.

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