Arista Networks - Software Test Engineer - SONiC

Job Description :

Who Youll Work With :

- Youll collaborate closely with software developers, working side by side to ensure robust and high-quality product releases.

- Youll engage with field-facing teams to understand customer deployments and feedback, representing customer use-cases directly to engineering teams.

- As a test expert, youll also work with networking experts to validate platform integration, scalability, and performance.

- Additionally, you will interact with product managers and technical documentation teams to align testing efforts with real-world application and market needs.

What Youll Do :

- 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.

- Work with the developers in creating their plans for automated tests to complement the exploratory testing that you perform.

- Be the testing expert for your team.

- Participate in functional specification and software design reviews held by the development team and provide customer centric input.

Qualifications :

- BS CS/CE/EE plus 3+ years of experience in networking.

- MS degree preferred.

- A minimum of one year of hands-on experience testing SONiC is a must (manual testing experience strongly desired).

- Strong working knowledge of SONiC architecture SAI, FRR open routing stack (formerly Quagga, Zebra), Redis-DB, docker and minigraph.

- Hands on experience with Linux operating system and its associated technologies (e.g. Virtualization, Kubernetes & more).

- 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.

- Knowledge of forwarding ASICs, FPGAs and network processors highly desired.

- Proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans.

- Experience with IXIA and/or Spirent test tools desired.

- Familiarity with test automation tools and scripting languages desired.

- Strong communication skills.

- ACE/CCIE/JNCIE certifications are a plus.