Job Summary:
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. They are seeking high-caliber Solution test engineers to ensure the quality of Aristaโs products through extensive testing of complex environments and collaboration with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
โข researching technologies, features and customer environments in order to come up with the right topologies to test
โข exercising extensive feature interaction and identifying potential breakage areas
โข exhaustive testing focusing on realistic use cases, scale and performance
โข Collaborate with various stakeholders from the development, sales and other test teams to understand requirements and expectations
โข Plan the building of, or add to the existing network topology required to test the use cases
โข Configure hardware, features, traffic generators and other tools to emulate the required environment
โข Execute exhaustive testplan, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance and realistic scale
โข Troubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings and work with the development team on reproduction, root cause analysis, fix verification and bug/limitation documentation
โข Communicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design and performance improvements
โข Interact with sales team and customers to answer questions, handle ad-hoc requests and run small demos
โข Collaborate with peers to cross-train on new technologies and improve team effectiveness
โข Help the TAC team with escalations reproductions efforts when needed
Qualifications:
Required:
โข Masters degree in telecommunications, computer engineering, computer networking
โข 3+ years of experience in a System test or Solution test role, handling complex end-to-end environments.
โข Highly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding, IP multicast, OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, MPLS, eVPN, ECMP, VRRP, STP, RSTP, MST, PVST+, Ethernet link aggregation, LACP, etc
โข Detailed working knowledge of layer-2/3-switch administration, including industry-standard CLI and SNMP interfaces
โข Familiarity with Linux tools such as ping, traceroute, tcpdump, ifconfig, ip link, ip route, arp, /proc/net, /proc/sys/net, vmstat, netstat, ttcp, iperf, and strace
โข Some familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or TCL
โข Strong written and oral communication skills
โข Strong drive to improve quality and curiosity to learn new technologies
โข Able to operate with a high degree of independence, driven by an internal desire to succeed at the challenge of breaking our products
Company:
Arista Networks is a computer networkingย firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.