Software QA Technical Lead (MX QA) - Python Automation with Networking Protocol Testing, 12+ years of experience

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About the Role:

Meraki is looking for a Software QA Technical Leader to join to support test qualification of our SD-WAN product offerings. As a Software QA Technical Lead, your responsibility includes designing and building testbeds, creating and implementing the integrated/application tests that resemble customer use-case for SD-WAN and Security solutions over physical, cloud, on-prem MX products and Meraki Dashboard, and contributing to industry-leading technologies in the cloud eco. As a part of a geographically distributed team, you will collaborate with multiple Meraki engineering teams and stakeholders around the globe to develop a fully-furnished test strategy. To be successful in this role, you will need to have motivation, curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and experience with telco technologies and automation as a breath.

In addition to driving test strategy, test planning and performing testing on large-scale networks you will provide technical leadership of entire QA team to drive and implement new insights to optimize and alleviate the team.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the use cases/workflows of the MX and vMX solution deployed in the customer environment.
• Participate in requirements/design discussions with Product managers & development team and represent the QA team.
• Design a test strategy document for the Meraki MX & vMX features and collaborate with other QA and development teams to cover all aspects of the features being developed.
• Execution of tests and reporting test results, and test metrics pertaining to these tests.
• Develop automation scripts in parallel or ahead with feature testing to enable CI/CD (i.e Automation Driven Testing)
• Identify, evaluate and propose new test tools and methodologies for improving -level product testing.
• Analyze the test gaps that resulted in customer issues and incorporate them into the test strategy.
• E2E ownership from feature testing to production deployment to monitoring & alerting.
• Proactively, Identify gaps in the regression test automation and improve automation coverage.
• Provide leadership & mentorship to the MX QA team and guide junior engineers in developing test-plan and reviewing their work.
• Invest in innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to foster the originality of ideas to productize them.
  
  

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

• 12+ years of proven experience in Software Quality assurance with at least 5+ years of testing or integration testing experience in large-scale routing, switching and wireless domain.
• In-depth knowledge of SDWAN, Security, Layer-2(VLAN/802.1Q), Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT) and are at ease to ramp up quickly on new technologies and concepts.
• Proficiency in writing quality code with one of the programming or scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, and Golang
• Good understanding of customer deployments and applying those takeaways to in-house testing and validations.
• Understanding of traffic generators and ability to explore tools and techniques to improve the testing methodology
• Experience building, supporting, maintaining, and scaling automation in a CI/CD environment.
• Knowledge of end-to-end testing of embedded devices at the test level
• Experience with traffic profile creation based on traffic mix from different sources
• Experience with Automation framework and/or CI pipeline development
• Effective communication skills and proven track record of collaboration with stakeholders.
• Experience in technically directing a team of QA engineers.
  
  

What Makes You Stand Out

• Ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature, platform, domain and enterprise teams, with a strong focus on business outcomes
• The ability to communicate sophisticated technical concepts clearly to peers and management
• Research of applications and Framework experience – Acquired patent(s), Published Whitepapers / Yellow paper on embedded solutions
• Experience and certified with Cloud and Containerized platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, AliCloud, Kubernetes, Dockers, etc
  
  

Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you!

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