Sr. Staff SW QA Engineer - Cloud

Gigamon is looking for a seasoned quality assurance engineer who will be responsible for validating Gigamon’s network visibility fabric product. As part of a growing, dynamic team, the candidate will thrive in a cross-functional team environment and will contribute towards test and automation efforts for achieving project quality goals.

What you’ll do:

• Provide technical expertise for the system design, operation, usability, and testability of our products with special focus on visibility fabric products.
• Work closely with the functional test teams in developing and improving overall testing approach and strategy
• Work with team for system testing strategy with focus on automation including but not limited to customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
• Design, develop and completely automating Functional, Usability, Performance, Scaling and Stress Testing suites.
• Deliver test automation code and help in driving improvements to our automation coverage.
• Identifying, leveraging, and successfully evangelizing opportunities to improve engineering productivity.        

What you’ve done:

• BS in CS or related field
• 10+ years of hands-on quality, development and/or automation experience in virtualization and networking space
• Extensive test automation and scripting skills (Python or some scripting language)
• Hand-on experience with various test automation framework (Robot, Python) and test automation tools (Cypress)
• Demonstrated experience in testing UI/UX performance and usability
• Experienced in various aspects of systems test, and in QA processes
• Demonstrated experience in testing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems including software upgrade, distributed control, and redundancy.
• Knowledge of network management concepts and basic protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, L2/L3 protocols, IPv4, IPv6, NAT, DNS)
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP layer, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL protocols, REST services and hands on experience on testing them.
• Experience in validating deliverables in Enterprise, Datacenter, Public or Private cloud environments (e.g., VMware, OpenStack, AWS)
• Experience working in Terraform/ Ansible
• Hands on experience in creating test beds for customer use case centric as well as scalability and performance testing
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Must have a true passion and focus for delivering quality products