Software Test Engineer - AI Data Center Networking
Software Test Engineer - AI Data Center Networking
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Job Description
Arista Networks is looking for world-class Software Test Engineers (aka System Test Engineers) to help us in building the highest quality networking products catering to the large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Centers. AI data centers are specialized facilities for intensive AI computation and data processing. Unlike traditional data centers they require higher power density advanced cooling and robust networking to support AI workloads like machine learning and deep learning.
Please look into the following to understand more on Aristas AI Networking Solution
Who Youll Work With
You will work with software development engineers hardware engineers field support engineers product managers and software test engineers to analyse the customer requirements and use cases gather technical details create software test plans and validate that the product meets our customers requirements. You will also work with our customer support and engineering teams to help address escalated customer issues by reproducing and debugging those in the lab.
You will NOT spend your time running manual regressions because Aristas developers automate all the basic functional and integration tests. Instead youll bring your intelligence creativity and drive to work every day to help us understand how our products are going to be used by our customers in the fast evolving AI Networking landscape and to make sure that theyre going to work every time. Your job is to find the hard bugs the ones not easily exposed by the developers automated unit and product level tests.
Arista operates on the principles of one engineering team which means that information knowledge access and collaboration is not siloed within a so-called business unit. You will get to learn what you would like to (the products technologies etc. - across engineering) and will be able to contribute and create an impact in any area that you might be interested in.
What Youll Do
- Customer-focused testing and End-to-End ownership
- Understand feature deployment/use cases from customer-facing teams. Write test plans and design complex network topologies to validate Arista features and products for functionality performance stability and scalability.
- Root Cause Analysis and Improving test coverage
- Identify defects and validate their resolution. Conduct in-depth root cause analysis and proactively identify test coverage gaps. Take initiatives to enhance the efficiency and robustness of automated tests.
- Assist in escalation reproduction
- Collaborate with our customer support and engineering teams to reproduce and debug escalated customer issues in a lab environment.
- Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams
- Work closely with development test and customer facing teams to analyse test coverage gaps and improve testing coverage and efficiency in complex network deployments.
- Automation and tool development
- Build automation tools to improve testing efficiency including creating scripts and test suites for AI Data Center features.
- Driving Innovation Through Mentorship
- Lead and mentor the team on testing emerging technologies on AI networking nurturing innovation and growth within the test organisation.
Qualifications :
- Experience and Education: BE/B-Tech/ME/M-Tech in CS/CE/ECE with 3 years of relevant Networking industry experience.
- Strong knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Ethernet RSTP/ MSTP VLANs IP Routing TCP/IP OSPF IS-IS BGP IGMP PIM SM/SSM QoS L2/L3 protocols VxLAN MPLS CFM Platform validation HA Network Management.
- Experience with IXIA and/or Spirent test tools desired.
- Proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans.
- Excellent communication analytical and problem-solving skills.
Additional Information :
Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership including founders and engineering managers are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.
We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.
Our engineers have access to every part of the company providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara California with development offices in Australia Canada India Ireland and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.
Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention quality respect and fun.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
