Sr QA Engineer

Your responsibilities

• Review system and product requirements to create comprehensive test plans that validate system features and real-world customer deployment scenarios
• Verify complex system features and functionality in carrier-grade products to ensure reliability and performance
• Develop cross-functional feature test scripts based on system requirements and test plans
• Design, maintain, and execute automated test frameworks, analyzing failures to improve system quality
• Partner with system engineering teams on requirements review, definition, and test plan validation
• Partner with test, design, and architecture teams to understand feature implementation and ensure effective testing coverage
• Provide detailed test execution reports, including defect analysis and resolution tracking
• Deliver independent quality insights and assessments to support confident feature deployment

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Your skills and experience

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CSE, EEE, or ECE, with 5+ years of experience in testing and automation within optical network systems
• Hands-on experience testing SONET/SDH/OTN/DWDM systems, including ROADM and optical amplifier line cards, in a product development environment
• Experience in testing FCAPS, provisioning, configuration, and protection schemes to ensure system reliability
• Proficiency in using test equipment, including test sets and optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), and programming/scripting skills in Python, Perl, or equivalent languages
• Proven experience in system testing across multiple product releases, ensuring quality, consistency, and adherence to relevant standards

Nice to Have:

• Strong understanding of optical and software design for network components within optical nodes
• Experience in testing FCAPS, provisioning, configuration, and protection schemes to ensure system reliability