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Position: Test Engineer
Location: Columbus, OH
Contract Duration: This is funded through December 2021!
Interview: phone/Skype to hire
**This engineer will be responsible for building out the test environment, not actually doing the testing!
Qualifications:
*Build and maintain a test infrastructure
*Scripting experience: Preferred languages include: Python, GO, GoLand. Perl is ok but not preferred.
*Experience working in an MSO/Cable environment or software environment
*Experience with cloud ecosystem like OpenStack or VMWare
Preferred experience:
*Modeling like Yang
*Jenkins, Git and Cucumber
Job Description:
The Test Engineer works with a team of engineers who are responsible for driving design, testing, and troubleshooting standards for systems and software applications used to support, integrate, repair, monitor or enhance our network based products and services. This role will create, curate and automate test environments and tools that our engineering teams use along with systems and applications to test, validate, and deliver our services.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to those listed below:
• Build and maintain a test infrastructure that allows automated deployment, reconfiguration and redeployment of lab infrastructure to increase the uptime of test equipment and efficacy of lab resources
• Design, iterate and continuously deploy updates to our testing platforms moving from a manual layer 1-7 test network to a fully automated layer 1-7 test network
• Utilizes agile methodology through SCRUM to manage the backlog and deliver on commitments
• Utilize Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and DevOps best practices to create, test, and validate deployment scripts or development branches used to publish or deploy functionality to customers
• Integrate new test equipment, products, and services with new or existing ARC lab technologies
• Help design and support a wire once automated approach that allows many to one and one to many access of tools and environments
• Integrate network and product delivery systems with north and southbound systems via API under the direction of senior engineers
• Ensure telemetry data from syslog, SNMP, streaming or other sources are visualized and utilized appropriately under the direction of senior engineers
• Configure expert scripts and utilize machine learning algorithms to help create self-healing customers and self-healing networks
• Utilize open source and off the shelf systems to facilitate the automated configuration and delivery of services over a variety of systems and Customer Premise Equipment
• Assist in the curation of test cases as applied to an automated environment to continually grow lab and test capabilities
• Design, document and facilitate the testing of system Application Programming Interfaces (API) in the development lab
• Partner with others to create robust reports and dashboards utilizing various database technologies and data visualization platforms
• Other duties as assigned
Education:
• BS or BA or appropriate combination of education and experience
• One or more technical certifications or certificates relating to software development or systems administration
Experience/Skills Needed:
• 3-5 years of testing experience in an MSO, networking or software environment.
• 3-5 years of cloud ecosystem experience such as VMWare or OpenStack
• Knowledge of open source frameworks such as LAMP, and SMACK
• Knowledge of visualization software such as Tableau, Grafana, or Kibana.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, repositories, and continuous integration and deployment processes
• Knowledge with SOAP/XML, REST, and JSON frameworks and API's
• Knowledge in automated testing technologies for software applications and/or networks.
• Knowledge in automation and technology management solutions
• Knowledge of the Open Systems Interconnection model
• Demonstrates a high level of transparency, collaboration and communication skills
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
Computer Skills:
• Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, G-Suite, Mac OSX, Unix Like Operating systems, Bash/