Cisco Datacenter switching group - Software QA Engineer - Layer 2 Testing - 5 positions

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Job Title: Software QA Engineer - Layer 2 Testing (Next Gen Data center Switch)

Job Description:

Participate (in an automation engineer role) on a new project team of engineers involved in testing of Next Generation Data Center switch:

Key areas include:
- Participate and work closely with developers at various stages fspec, design reviews to develop testplans,tools,utilities.
- Write detail feature testplans, Design Test bed design, test topologies.
- Develop Tcl/Expect scripts for automated testing.
· Investigate script failures in automated testbeds; modify scripts/libraries and log product defects as needed.
· Assist development engineers in product defect diagnosis.
· Develop and maintain Tcl/Expect libraries used to control switches, routers, and traffic generators.
· Assist other devtest engineers in script development efforts by performing code reviews and assisting in debugging efforts.
· Initiate and participate in efforts to improve group productivity and test effectiveness.
· Provide feedback and contribute in test plan development, resource allocation planning, and test process definition/improvement.

Skills required:
Preferred :Strong Platform, infrastructure test experience with good understanding for the data path of routers/switches. Cat6k experience would be an added advantage. In addition to this good exposure to layer2 and layer 3 protocols is required and experience with using test tools from IXIA, spirent, Agilent is required.

Automation will span white box, feature tests, general utilities,Protocol conformance, latency,performance, stress, scale tools and end to end system testing.


Platform: packet flow debugging experience with multi layer switches, troubleshooting platform features like powersupply/Fan/LC bringup/Temperature Sensor, HA, SMP (symmetric Multi processing), Kernel debugging, IPC, Threads, GDB, Sockets

Layer 3: OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS, QOS, Traffic engineering, Policy Based routing, PIM,Gateway routing protocol, VRRP, DVMRP.

Layer 2: Spanning Tree, Vlans, Vlan truncking, 802.1X, ethernet,Transport: Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, Sockets
Languages: TCL, iTCL, Perl, C , C++

Traffic tools: IXIA, Spirent, Smartbits, Agilent Router Tester, QA Robot, Cisco PagentTest Harness: Cisco ATS, ATS Easy, eARMS
Interop: Exposure to Juniper, Foundry, Nortel, Cisco 7200, 7600,Catalyst 6500, GSR, HFR routers.

· Hands-on experience testing Cisco switches or routers using autotest , ATS EASY, is a plus· Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with different test, development, and support groups.
· Must be able to handle multiple tasks at once and work independently with minimal managerial oversight.
· Typically requires MSEE/CS combined with 4-5 years of related experience or BSEE/CS combined with 6-8+ years experience

Skills:

Layer 2: Spanning Tree, Vlans, Vlan truncking, 802.1X, ethernet,Transport: Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, Sockets
Languages: TCL, iTCL, Perl, C , C++