Description

Gigamon is looking for a seasoned quality assurance engineer who will be responsible for validating Gigamon’s network visibility fabric product. As part of a growing, dynamic team, the candidate will thrive in a cross-functional team environment and will contribute towards test and automation efforts for achieving project quality goals.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise for the system design, operation and testability of our products with special focus on visibility fabric products.
• Work closely with the functional test teams in developing and improving overall testing approach and strategy
• Work with team for system testing strategy with focus on automation including but not limited to customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
• Design, develop and completely automating Functional, Performance, Scaling and Stress Testing suites.
• Deliver test automation code and help in driving improvements to our automation coverage.
• Identifying, leveraging, and successfully evangelizing opportunities to improve engineering productivity.         
• Work closely with the functional test teams in developing and improving overall testing approach and strategy

Requirements:

• BS in CS or related field
• 7+ years of hands on quality, development and/or automation experience in virtualization and networking space
• Extensive test automation and scripting skills (Python or some scripting language)
• Hand-on experience with various test automation framework (Robot, Python) and test automation tools (Selenium, Protractor)
• Experienced in various aspects of systems test and in QA processes
• Demonstrated experience in testing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems including software upgrade, distributed control and redundancy.
• Knowledge of network management concepts and basic protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, L2/L3 protocols, IPv4, IPv6, REST)
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP layer , HTTP/HTTPS protocols, REST services and hands on experience on testing them .
• Experience building and managing vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, preferably in VMware 5.x and 6.x
• Good knowledge and protocol testing experience of application protocols like FTP,DNS,HTTP,SSL etc.
• Hands on experience in creating test beds for customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Must have a true passion for delivering quality products

Nice to have:

• Technical knowledge of current virtualization software, tools, protocols and standards, including vCenter, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft VMM
• Working knowledge of Amazon EC2, Azure and other cloud platforms and environments
• Experience with network testing equipment such as Spirent, Avalanche, XENA