Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Summary

The Eng3 DOCSIS QA Engineer is expected to possess deep expertise in DOCSIS and PON technologies and be highly skilled in modern quality assurance and testing methodologies. Primary responsibilities encompass planning and execution of E2E test to ensure the quality of vCMTS application features. In addition to the core responsibilities, candidate will work with team to resolve any lab and system setup issues, work with automation team to ensure nightly automation regression run failures are addressed, automation backlog is up to date with new vCMTS release features, perform detail analysis of the product issue and provide necessary information for quick turnaround, provide proper status of the work/issue to the team and management.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development of Quality Assurance test philosophies and methodologies.
• Identifies viable test strategies to support testing product functionality.
• Works with product, architecture, engineering and operations teams in the definition of test plan, test cases, and test report within specified timelines.
• Reviews and verifies requirements and design specifications for validity in overall product design, with an emphasis towards product testability and verification.
• Ensures proper execution of regression test procedures and automated test suites and scripts.
• Participates in design, code and functional product reviews.
• Develop testing strategy focused on continuous integration and automated regression testing reducing end-to-end delivery times to production.
• Works with other Quality Assurance Engineers or developers to identify, reproduce and document bugs or defects.
• Affords guidance and mentorship for junior level engineers.
• Apply quality assurance testing models to inspect and analyze new and deployed features, evaluating results for adherence to specifications, technical requirements, and established business processes.
• Produces documentation/metrics with goal of reducing test intervals and improving quality.
• Maintain test infrastructure/environment.
• Design and build testing automation frameworks leveraging custom code and open-source tools for Regression tests, smoke tests and load tests.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5-7 years of experience in telecommunication industry.
• QA and certification knowledge and expertise.
• Experience with DOCSIS and/or PON technologies, understanding their operational and technical nuances.
• Telecommunications and/or networking experience.
• SDN/NFV knowledge.
• Experience with AWS / Cloud based deployment practices is a plus.
• DevOps and CI/CD experience - Kube, GitHub, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins.
• Scripting knowledge – bash/Python/Java script.
• Knowledge of operational support tool technologies: ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana.
• Knowledge of network fundamentals, protocols, simulation tools and virtualization technologies.
• Adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions to a diverse audience.

Requirements

• Mutual respect and diversity of thought.
• Curiosity, experimentation, and the pursuit of continuous improvement.
• Team unity and minimal ego.
• Leadership and the willingness to technically guide scrum teams.
• Strong commitment to delivering projects on time.
• Dedication to training and mentoring young engineers.
• Simplicity in our architecture and coding, with a focus on details.
• Find joy in our work and maintain a balance with personal life.
• Ownership at both personal and team levels, building on mutual trust.
• Thoughtful refactoring and challenging the status quo.