Quality Assurance Engineer

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Responsibilities

• Responsible for test design for a network solution incorporating virtualization, network management tools, and hardware components
• Responsible for technical review of features for feasibility and design
• Effectively communicates or reinforces messages consistent with management direction
• Serves as a technical partner/consultant to managers
• Analyzes metrics for quality trends before and after releases
• Advocates test planning that includes appropriate performance assessment to ensure/improve product scalability
• Reviews unit and acceptance tests and makes recommendations for improvement
• Reviews project plans and schedules for technical dependencies, risk areas, etc. Assists in scoping optimization exercises.
• Develops master test plan + strategy for complex projects
• Researches and proposes solutions to improve test quality
• Drives development efforts toward incorporating testability into product
• Anticipates roadblocks and shortcomings and solves them proactively
• Provides authoritative technical leadership within a program
• Responsible for driving solution/end-to-end test efforts
• Develops tools or processes to increase productivity
• Provides guidance to contributors of all technical roles and levels
• Applies knowledge of customer perspective to improve product quality
• Designs complex test environments that can accommodate both QA test needs and customer use case testing
• Provides technical leadership for system level tests (eg. performance, scalability, reliability, security effectiveness)
• Ability to provide technical leadership at the cross-functional level.
• Sets and upholds quality standards for a product or technology
• Has advanced debugging and issue analysis skills. Effective with customer escalations.
• Ability to provide code review or white box testing

Qualifications

• Excellent inter-personal skills. Enjoys a team environment.
• Extremely detail-oriented and hands-on.
• Solid understanding of networking protocols.
• Passionate about quality and customer experience.
• Software engineering or field engineering experience. Understands Product Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in software Quality Assurance.
• Enjoys working with a team.
• Optical networking background preferred.
• Strong UNIX/Linux background preferred.
• Network certifications preferred.
• BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.