Senior Quality Assurance Test Engineer

Job Title - Senior QA Engineer

Location - Pune

As a Senior QA Engineer, you would discover and implement gaps in automation framework and system-integration test cases for a modern cloud-scale SmartNIC and Networking infrastructure vendor.

Technical Requirements

• 8+ years of experience
• Experience with modern SmartNICs (pcie device and BITW modes) SoC
• Strong understanding of networking concepts (SDN, routing, L2/L3)
• Familiarity with SPDK/DPDK framework and how/why their role in SmartNICs.
• Understanding of Security, Storage and RDMA.
• Familiarity with the Linux kernel’s networking stack.
• System Integration Testing, right from tests' discovery, test-plan preparation and overall delivery of quality product
• Automation infra development for plugging into CI
• Programming Languages: C/python. Familiarity with some automation framework like pytest is desirable.
• Able to work with cross-geography team, build consensus across teams
• Leadership qualities - can identify tasks, assess priorities, in addition to executing them
• Able to work in tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Very strong communication skills, active listening
• Discover product requirements and propose System Integration Test plan
• Able to justify/defend technical decisions/choices against peer reviews/criticism, but at the same time flexible in accepting objective feedback for improvements
• Engage with the customer and take ownership of testing and quality delivery
• Identify automation needs
• how the existing automation infra can be leveraged and if there are any missing pieces
• Implement missing pieces of automation infra
• Execute and Evolve System Integration Tests
• Constantly drive for more effective automation and remain curious to explore ways to make the test infra (and the product) better
• Show initiative, do not wait to be assigned tasks, find the tasks that need to be executed
• Collaborate with multiple team-mates and also multiple engineers in customer's team for knowledge gathering and building consensus.
• Be prepared to collaborate and ‘pull’ information to make progress instead of waiting for the right know-how to become available.
• Able to deliver on tight timelines, demonstrate design foresight to accommodate requirement changes.