Network System Test Engineer Job in Bangalore at Arista Networks

Arista Networks is hiring for the role of Network System Test Engineer!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Ideal candidates have a passion for networking and complex, scaled-out network topologies.
• The role involves finding hard-to-find bugs and troubleshooting/debugging network and system problems.
• You'll work directly with end-user scenarios to ensure product reliability.
• You won't be burdened with manual regression testing; focus on challenging bug finding.
• You'll collaborate closely with developers, POC engineers, and account teams in a team-oriented environment.
• The goal is to proactively identify and fix software issues before they impact customers.
• Work with the developers on your team in creating their plans for automated tests to complement the  exploratory testing that you perform. 
• Participate in functional specification and software design reviews held by your team and provide customer  centric input.  
• Work in a highly productive environment along with best of the engineers on Linux platform that cuts a typical  development cycle by order of magnitude with a laser focus towards quality. 
• Use every means possible to find the bugs in the software and/or hardware being developed by your team.
• Write test plans to validate Arista features and products. 
• Design test network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of features and products.  
• Execute test plans to verify all aspects of the product. Identify defects and validate resolution. 
• Work as an agile member of a combined development and test team, running in short cycles to develop functional software in quick iterations.

Requirements:

• Experience & Education: BE/ B.Tech/ME/ M. Tech with networking industry experience.
• Proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans.  
• Strong knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP,  OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, IGMP, PIM SM/SSM, QoS, L2-L3 protocols, Platform validation, HA, QOS, network management. 
• Experience with IXIA and/or Spirent test tools desired.