Senior/Staff SW QA Engineer (Performance & Scale)- 10422 / 10419

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Position: 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.

· Experience or exposure to AI, Machine Learning and related tools.

· Good Analytical and Communication Skills

· 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