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Sr. Software QA Engineer

  • Job ref:

    9252

  • Location:

    Westford, United States

  • Sector:

    Software

  • Contact:

    Chris Najem

  • Published:

    almost 4 years ago

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Test new features to make sure requirements are met and customer use-cases will pass
  • Regress the system each release to ensure previous functionality still works well
  • Continually improve the efficiency of manual testing
  • Automate tests where appropriate, to expand coverage and speed up execution time
  • Test the system end-to-end from InfiniStream back-end to nG1 Applications.
  • Interface with SQA, Development, Tech Pubs, Product Management, and Customer-facing teams
  • Follow our software development processes, and offer ideas for improvement
  • Take ownership of quality of the system and your features. 
  • Troubleshoot complex product issues and provide development with all the information needed to quickly determine root cause
  • Configure, maintain, and use multiple test systems in your daily work to broaden coverage across a variety of customer-like scenarios and to perform tests in parallel

Education and Specific Experience Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Management Information Systems, or similar technical field
  • Three years of general experience developing, testing, or troubleshooting large, distributed software systems
  • Experience with Linux and Windows server OS, including areas related to networking, storage, and debugging
  • Working knowledge of network security and techniques used to harden systems including iptables, stunnel, SSL, TLS, encryption ciphers, syslog, and auditing
  • Experience/Knowledge of telecom network architecture (2G, 3G, 4G, LTE, IMS, VoLTE, etc.)
  • Previous experience analyzing protocols, in either telecom or enterprise realms, with Wireshark or similar tools
  • Hands on scripting or automation development using Python, Bash, Robot, iTest, or other languages/tools
  • Experience with private and public cloud environments:  VMWare, KVM, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
  • Experience with platform health, alarm monitoring, scalability and performance testing
  • Experience with Dell R730, R740 servers, raid configuration and bios configuration
  • Experience with traffic generation using utilities such as TCPReplay, PFSend, GeNet, and Spirent.
  • Experience with Enterprise Protocol Classifications for DNS, HTTP/S, SMB, Oracle ...etc.