Software QA Engineer
Extreme Networks · Posted Oct 5
AI-native cloud networking, wired and wireless infrastructure, and enterprise security solutions
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About the role
Extreme Networks delivers end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions and services used by over 50,000 customers globally, and the company pushes technology forward with machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics and automation. The QA team validates cloud-based networking applications and services across cloud environments, containerization platforms and wired/wireless network protocols. This Software QA Engineer role plans, develops, executes and automates end-to-end test suites covering functional, integration, performance, scale and load validation, working closely with Product Owners, Development and CloudOps.
What you will do
- Experience in testing cloud-based applications.
- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
- Experience and understanding of Kubernetes, Docker and Clustering solutions.
- Experience in creating end-to-end test strategy and test planning.
- Plan, Develop, Execute and Automate Test suites for our Cloud based Networking applications and Services
- Perform functional, integration, performance and scale, load validations
- Work closely with Product Owners, Development, CloudOps and other teams on the above
- Review customer deployments and customer found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage
- Automation of features from an end-to-end perspective - API and GUI.
- Review automation code written by other team members, give feedback.
- API Testing (Functional, Security aspects and Scale/Performance) (REST preferred)
- Hands-on programming using Java, Python, ROBOT, Perl, Go or TCL/TK.
- Experience in testing wired Networking protocols like VLAN, IP, STP, TCP, UDP, VRRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, SPBM etc.
- Experience in testing Enterprise Wireless and Wired networks.
- Experience in security concepts and protocols such as AAA framework, 802.1X, Captive portal, VPN, Firewalls, SSL etc.
- UI test automation experience using selenium or playwright.
- Knowledge of Virtualization and Hypervisor (ESX, Hyper-V).
- Experience using network testing tools like Wireshark, Ethereal or Jmeter.
- Proficiency in Linux/Unix OS.
- Experience or exposure to AI, Machine Learning and related tools.
- Good Analytical and Communication Skills
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3 to 12 years of Experience in Network Management/Orchestration domain
- Good debugging skills in a Microservices oriented architecture based product
- A detailed understanding of cloud technologies ,containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Hands on experience with Performance Testing - Experience with Performance Testing & Monitoring using tools such as Jmeter, Locust etc.,
- Expert in API Testing: API Contract Testing using Mocks, API Automation etc.,. Knowledge on relevant widely used Tools for the same.
- UI Automation using Selenium, Robot framework and Python
- Applied experience with version control systems such as Git, Github
- Comfortable with SQL/NoSQL/In-memory databases such as PostgreSQL/Redis/Ignite
- Knowledge on monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures wired, wireless, and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure equipment. The company delivers AI-native cloud networking solutions, analytics, and security services to tens of thousands of global customers. Its core offerings, such as ExtremeCloud IQ and Extreme Platform ONE, provide unified, scalable enterprise networking management.
- Industry
- Networking Hardware
- Company size
- 2500-5000 employees
- Founded
- 1996
- Location
- Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $230M raised
- 2018-05-08Conventional Debt$230M
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
President of AI Platforms and Chief Technology Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Commercial Officer
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