Solutions Test Engineer

Who Youll Work With

You will work with software development engineers hardware engineers field support engineers product managers and software test engineers to analyse customer requirements and use cases gather technical details create software test plans and validate that the product meets our customers requirements.  You will also work with our customer support and engineering teams to help address escalated customer issues by reproducing and debugging those in the lab.

The role will provide opportunities to create real impact in the rapidly growing Software defined (SD) branch SDWAN Cloud IT services and virtualization technologies. 

What Youll Do

Arista Networks is seeking highcaliber Solution test engineers.

The key role of the Solution test group is to ensure the quality of Aristas products through System test type testing of large complex and feature rich endtoend environments focusing on key technologies as well as emulating Aristas most important and strategic customers networks by researching technologies features and customer environments in order to come up with the right topologies to test exercising extensive feature interaction and identifying potential breakage areas exhaustive testing focusing on realistic use cases scale and performance.

• Collaborate with various stakeholders from the development sales and other test teams to understand requirements and expectations.
• Plan the building of or add to the existing network topology required to test the use cases.
• Configure hardware features traffic generators and other tools to emulate the required environment
• Execute exhaustive testplan focusing on potential weaker areas performance and realistic scale
• Troubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings and work with the development team on reproduction root cause analysis fix verification and bug/limitation documentation
• Communicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design and performance improvements
• Interact with sales team and customers to answer questions handle adhoc requests and run small demos
• Collaborate with peers to crosstrain on new technologies and improve team effectiveness
• Help the TAC team with escalations reproductions efforts when needed.

Qualifications :

• 8 years of experience in a System test or Solution test role handling complex endtoend environments.
• Highly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding IP multicast OSPF BGP VXLAN MPLS eVPN ECMP VRRP STP RSTP MST PVST Ethernet link aggregation LACP etc
• Detailed working knowledge of layer2/3switch administration including industrystandard CLI and SNMP interfaces
• Familiarity with Linux tools such as ping traceroute tcpdump ifconfig ip link ip route arp /proc/net /proc/sys/net vmstat netstat ttcp iperf and strace
• Some familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or TCL
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong drive to improve quality and curiosity to learn new technologies
• Able to operate with a high degree of independence driven by an internal desire to succeed at the challenge of breaking our products

Additional Information :

Arista stands out as an engineeringcentric company. Our leadership including founders and engineering managers are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara California with development offices in Australia Canada India Ireland and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention quality respect and fun.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime