Software Test Engineer (Cloud/Server)

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $7 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience.  Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

Arista Networks is seeking high-caliber self-motivated test engineers for its enterprise and cloud-managed WiFi products. As a test engineer, you serve as the first customer of our products. You will ensure that the bugs that escape autonomous testing, implemented by the development team, are caught before the product is made available to our customers. This means that you will: 

• Focus your testing efforts on those hard-to-find bugs in the product that the autonomous testing framework could not or cannot cover and 

• Challenge your imagination and skills to come up with creative ways to “break the product” in real customer scenarios instead of wasting time on manual regression testing of basic functionality. 

• Able to work successfully in a fast-paced environment, including with multiple platforms and architectures, diverse technologies, and cloud environments.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities

• Understand the Arista WiFi cloud architecture, its components, and related products. 
• Work with software development, test engineers and field support engineers to gather technical requirements, participate in functional specification and software design reviews, and validate that the product meets our customers’ requirements. 
• Write test plans, including the design of test network topologies and methodologies, to verify the product features you will test. 
• “Own” the feature and product, and be the single point of contact and testing expert for your deliverables. 
• Execute the test plan and report bugs found during the testing. Your bug reports should include a detailed description of the conditions under which a bug manifests and how it can be reproduced, the resulting product behavior, and the extent of its impact on our customers. Logs and traces, wherever relevant, are mandatory to be provided.
• Participate in test plan reviews of other features and products, and provide feedback to your team members, and in turn enhance your knowledge about other features or products. 
• Work with customer support and systems engineering teams to help address escalated customer issues by reproducing and debugging them in the lab.
• Present the feature(s) to the TAC team during training sessions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in E&TC/EE/CE/CS/IT or a related field; Master’s degree a plus. 
• 2 - 8 years of experience in testing & troubleshooting Cloud technologies, virtualization, Microservices, and debugging complex software
• Good experience in working with Hadoop & Big data technologies like HDFS, HBase, Spark, Kafka streaming, and Elasticsearch
• Good working knowledge of Database (SQL) and Server side validations.
• Experience with various performance testing methods (Load test, Stress test, and capacity test) will be a plus. 
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals around scalability, elasticity, availability, and fault tolerance.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills and proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans. 
• Solid knowledge of networking fundamentals across the OSI stack is a must. 
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking tools. 
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python will be a plus.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills.

Additional Information

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.