System Test Engineer (AGNI)

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.
At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that 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 Best Engineering Team, 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 standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

Who You’ll Work With

Arista has been at the forefront of the cloud networking revolution, leveraging a software-driven approach based on cloud native principles, open standards based designs, and native programmability to deliver consistent, reliable software solutions. Arista Guardian for Network Identity (CloudVision AGNI) has adopted a similar architectural approach as other Arista products to deliver a state-of-the-art solution for managing network identity. CloudVision AGNI embraces modern design principles, uses cloud native microservices architecture, and Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) technologies to significantly simplify the administrative tasks and reduce complexities. It offers a comprehensive range of features to meet the requirements of modern networks, including support for scaling, operational simplicity, stability, and zero-trust security. Delivered as a SaaS offering, CloudVision AGNI delivers a substantial reduction in total cost of ownership, making it a very cost-effective choice for businesses of all sizes. With its cutting edge features and advanced technology, CloudVision AGNI is the ideal choice for businesses looking to enhance their network security infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

Arista Networks is looking for world-class Software Test Engineers (aka System Test engineers) to help us in building the highest quality networking products. If you love networking, working on complex & scaled out network topologies makes you excited and if you like to challenge yourself to find the hard-to-find bugs and if troubleshooting & debugging network and system problems gives you a thrill, this role is tailor made for you.

At Arista, you’ll bring your intelligence, creativity, and drive every day & work with our products exactly how they are going to be used by our end customers and while doing so, make sure that the products are going to work every time. You will engage with our products as end-users would, ensuring their consistent functionality and reliability.

Your job is to find the hard bugs, the ones not easily exposed by the developers’ automated unit and product level tests. You will NOT spend your time running manual regressions of mind numbing, 1000 page test plans, because Arista’s developers automate all the basic functional and integration tests.

Courtesy of our super collaborative work environment, you’ll spend your time embedded deeply with multiple engineering teams, working side by side with the developers, POC engineers, account teams, working together as one team and do all of it to help us to explore, find and fix software problems before they can reach the customers. We take quality seriously and we invite you to be a champion of software quality!!

Education: B.E. / B.Tech / M.E. / M. Tech
Experience: Having over 4-8 years of networking industry experience.
Proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans.
Strong knowledge in the following areas: 802.1X, RADIUS, TACACS+, AAA, NAC, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, L2-L3 protocols.
Must have experience in configuring wired switches and wireless access points of different vendors for network access use-cases.
Experience with Identity Providers like Okta, Azure Active Directory, OneLogin will be desired.
Experience with testing cloud-native SaaS applications will be desired.
Experience with working on other AAA or NAC products will be desired.
Work with the developers on your team in creating their plans for automated tests to complement the exploratory testing that you perform.
Participate in functional specification and software design reviews held by your team and provide customer centric input.
Work in a highly productive environment along with the best of the engineers on the Linux platform that cuts a typical development cycle by order of magnitude with a laser focus towards quality.
Use every means possible to find the bugs in the software and/or hardware being developed by your team.
Write test plans to validate Arista features and products.
Design test network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of features and products.
Execute test plans to verify all aspects of the product. Identify defects and validate resolution.
Work as an agile member of a combined development and test team, running in short cycles to develop functional software in quick iterations.

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.