Network Automation Engineer/ Network testing Engineer/ Network Engineer

Network Automation Engineer/ Network Testing Engineer/ Network Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX or Miramar, FL (Hybrid Onsite)

Duration: 6+ months contract

IV: Phone and Video

Visa: No H1b/CPT

Looking for 3-4 years experienced candidate

Serve in a team leader capacity with large-scale infrastructure projects for warehouses, offices, distribution centers, point of sale, depot, and data centers for testing related to cabling, networking, wireless access, conveyors, security, servers, MDF, IDF, Zoom Rooms, and end user equipment.

Responsible for the overall QA Test Strategy for the project.

Understand, design, and execute all types of test strategies and tests (unit, end-to-end, performance, white box/black box, regression, etc.) for apps running on infrastructure services.

Lead the implementation, build-out, or expansion of automated testing tools.

Coordinate, schedule, and track various types of testing (unit, functional, system, connectivity, security, end user, server & database failover, disaster recovery, email, application) with project and program teams.

Reporting testing outcomes to project stakeholders.

Confirm that the work being performed by 3rd party vendors includes unit testing by those doing the work and audit the test results and pictures of the work at the site for compliance.

Perform quality and testing inspections and random audits across the various IT functions to ensure quality and testing standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed properly and consistently, noting any discrepancies.

Create, run, and maintain reports to measure and track testing metrics.

Participate in test automation, including framework design, script development and maintenance.

Lead QA projects and teams, become an expert in technology stack, business processes and data exchanges to help ensure proper test coverage and data integrity across all integration points.

Develop test strategies and approaches, test plans (including test conditions and expected results), test cases, test scripts, test validations both manual and automated.

Validate that patches and updates designed to address security flaws are implemented correctly and that they don't introduce new vulnerabilities.

Improve the efficiency of QA team, mitigate team conflicts and communication problems.

Report ALM QA metrics and testing status to project team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree (computer science, information systems, business administration or other industry related curriculum) or combination of education and equivalent experience
• At least two years working experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst
• Proficient oral and written communication skills
• Experience executing testing for large-scale infrastructure projects
• Experience working with automated testing tools
• General understanding and working knowledge of the following technologies: End-to-end network components and architecture (network switches, routers, firewalls)
• End-to-end WAN architecture (MPLS, Internet, DMVPN, SD-WAN)
• VoIP/Unified Communications/Overhead Paging (Cisco Unified Communications & Cisco UCaaS)
• Enterprise Video Conference and Collaboration Solutions
• Virtualization Platforms for Windows & IBM Power Series: VMWare, Hyper-V, IBM PowerVM
• Compute/Storage Technology Stack: Blade servers, vSANs, IBM iSeries/Power Series, Windows Server OS, AIX, Linux (RHEL)
• Database: SQL, Oracle
• Cloud Services: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP
• Ability to demonstrate Agile delivery values

A Plus!

• At least two years working experience working with automated testing tools
• Experience evaluating and improving QA practices and processes
• Experience interacting with Business team members during a testing program
• SAFe Agile certified
• Experience mentoring and developing QA people
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools
• Experience working infrastructure, technology refresh and cyber security projects.