Python Automation Test Engineer

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.
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Why Ciena: 

• We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.
• We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
• We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
• We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.
• We know that financial security is important.  We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
• We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable.  We offer flexible paid time off!
• Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

How You Will Contribute: 

We believe in the power of people. We are a network strategy and technology company that is motivated by making a difference in people’s lives – their productivity, their creativity, their health and comfort. That’s why our verification engineers help sanitize technologies that allow people to do great things.

We’re looking for a highly motivated, talented and experienced engineer who is passionate about product verification and automation activities. You will certify solutions that provide our customers opportunities to differentiate their service offerings in a very competitive market.  You will own entire solutions based on BluePlanet ROA and validate them for functionality, reliability, scalability and efficiency.

• Collaborating with various engineering teams, product line managers, and product owners to translate concepts and high-level requirements into optimized test coverage and superior customer experiences.
• Formulating test strategies to thoroughly evaluate ROA functionality pertaining to L3 Routing and Packet management service provisioning, service switching and routing performance, Fault management, Network traffic integrity, stress loading, and overseeing test plan execution using TestRail.
• Spearheading lab buildout initiatives to address proposed testing scenarios fully, coordinating equipment acquisition and sharing agreements across relevant teams.
• Validating the seamless integration of open-source and third-party software applications within ROA solutions to ensure they contribute to the success of Ciena Blue Planet solutions for our clients.
• Analyzing test results and generating comprehensive test reports.
• Investigating software defects, identifying critical issues with potential customer impact, and collaborating with software development engineers to find resolutions or address specification- and test plan-related problems.
• Contributing to efforts aimed at automating all manually devised and executed test cases using automation best practices, including ongoing maintenance of these test cases.
• Sharing your expertise by mentoring junior team members as needed.

• If you're passionate about leveraging technology to drive positive change and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment, we encourage you to join our team and help shape the future of network solutions.

What Does Ciena Expect of You? 

• Initiative – You’re a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines. 
• Agility – you are readily able to make key decisions and manage competing and ever-changing priorities. 
• Communication expertise – you possess the ability to influence and tailor your message and ideas to the audience to ensure understanding and agreement. 
• The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team – you thrive in a multi-disciplinary team environment, but are comfortable working independently as required. 
• Relationship builder – with an ability to influence, you’re able to quickly develop trusted connections and get work done across multi sites. 
• A commitment to innovation – you keep abreast of the market and competitive developments and are always keen to formulate new ideas and problem solve. 
• A passion for coaching – fully understanding and appreciating the power of the mentorship role. 

Must Have:

• Knowledge and/or experience working with Layers 2/3 technologies with specific expertise in any of the following areas:
• BGP IGP (EIGRP/OSPF/ISIS) E-LINE/E-LAN/E-TREE Segment Routing Traffic Engineering MPLS LDP/RSVP-TE SNMPv2/v3 TWAMP
• Authentication Protocols (TACACS/Radius)/DHCP / DNS / NTP
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills associated with enterprise and carrier software solutions in general.
• Knowledge and/or experience working with Blue Planet product line, its general functions, architecture and micro-services is highly desirable. 
• Experience with different Router configuration on vendors such as Ciena, Cisco, Juniper, Arista etc.
• Knowledge and/or work experience with Python, and/or REST API and associated tools is bonus.
• Excellent written (documentation) and interpersonal communication skills (English).
• Strong abilities to work as part of a team or independently with little supervision.
• Strong abilities to rapidly learn new complex technological concepts and apply knowledge in daily activities.

Good to Have

• Knowledge and experience working with Centos/RHEL/Kubernetes and/or Virtual Machine and system admin functions.
• Knowledge and experience working with virtualization software such as VMware ESXi, OpenStack, AWS, KVM virtualization.

Education Qualification:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of progressive experience in Software Product or System Testing role
• Domain: Telecom, OSS, Inventory

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