Solutions Test Engineer

Who You ll Work With

You will work with software development engineers, hardware engineers, field support engineers, product managers, and software test engineers to analyse customer requirements and use cases, gather technical details, create software test plans, and validate that the product meets our customer s 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.

The role will provide opportunities to create real impact in the rapidly growing Software defined (SD) branch, SD-WAN, Cloud IT services, and virtualization technologies.

What You ll Do

Arista Networks is seeking high-caliber Solution test engineers.

The key role of the Solution test group is to ensure the quality of Arista s products through System test type testing of large, complex and feature rich end-to-end environments focusing on key technologies as well as emulating Arista s most important and strategic customers networks by researching technologies, features and customer environments in order to come up with the right topologies to test exercising extensive feature interaction and identifying potential breakage areas exhaustive testing focusing on realistic use cases, scale and performance.

• Collaborate with various stakeholders from the development, sales and other test teams to understand requirements and expectations.
• Plan the building of, or add to the existing network topology required to test the use cases.
• Configure hardware, features, traffic generators and other tools to emulate the required environment
• Execute exhaustive testplan, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance and realistic scale
• Troubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings and work with the development team on reproduction, root cause analysis, fix verification and bug/limitation documentation
• Communicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design and performance improvements
• Interact with sales team and customers to answer questions, handle ad-hoc requests and run small demos
• Collaborate with peers to cross-train on new technologies and improve team effectiveness
• Help the TAC team with escalations reproductions efforts when needed.

• 8+ years of experience in a System test or Solution test role, handling complex end-to-end environments.
• Highly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding, IP multicast, OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, MPLS, e