Principal SW QA Engineer - TAF

Gigamon’s Test automation infrastructure team is responsible for building infrastructure tools, automating the system/application deployment pipeline, and working with QA/development teams to help engineer scalable software systems. As part of this team, you will help facilitate growing our technical capacity to enable strong CD/CI environment, scale under load as well as increase our ability to continuously release software.  You will have the opportunity to find creative solutions and be empowered to take risks while designing and building out your solutions. What you’ll do:

• Understand and Enhance Test Automation: Analyze our test automation infrastructure to identify opportunities for enhancement based on evolving requirements.
• Support CI/CD Pipelines: Collaborate with product development squads to build, maintain, and support CI/CD pipelines and underlying infrastructure code.
• Develop and Apply Cloud Solutions: Implement and continuously expand expertise in public cloud solutions (e.g., VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, GCP) to develop, maintain, and support products.
• Contribute to Product Development: Provide technical reviews and insights, aiding in the planning and development of future products within an infrastructure context.
• Promote Best Practices: Empower teams to adopt infrastructure best practices when developing new services.
• Implement IT Infrastructure: Develop, maintain, monitor, and support IT infrastructure, emphasizing automation tools and frameworks for seamless code deployment (CI/CD).
• Troubleshooting and Maintenance: Design and implement procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Automate Processes: Encourage and implement automation processes wherever possible to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Cybersecurity Measures: Identify and deploy appropriate cybersecurity measures through continuous vulnerability assessments and risk management.
• Optimize CI/CD Tools: Select and deploy suitable CI/CD tools to support continuous integration, development, and deployment pipelines.
• Commit to Continuous Improvement: Foster an environment of continuous improvement, adhering to DevOps and Agile principles to optimize workflows and outcomes.
• Using AI: Exploring the usage of AI for internal tool development

What you’ve done:

• BS in CS or related field
• 14+ years of hands-on quality, development and/or automation experience in virtualization and networking space
• Good at test automation and scripting skills (Python or some scripting language)
• Hand-on experience in Python, Terraform, Ansible, Robot Framework
• Working knowledge of current virtualization software, tools, protocols, and standards, including vCenter, VMware ESXi/NSX-T, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Working knowledge of any public/private cloud environment: Amazon EC2, Azure, OpenStack / other cloud platforms
• Tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and other messaging systems
• Use of DB like Mongo, Elastic, Redis etc
• Good knowledge of network protocols like DNS, DHCP, DDNS, TLS/HTTP(S)
• Demonstrated experience in testing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems including software upgrade, distributed control, and redundancy.
• Ability to design solutions for scale
• Ability to develop solutions for test under stress conditions
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Must have a true passion for developing new tools

 Who you are:

• Experience with network testing equipment such as Spirent, Avalanche, TREX
• Experience working with GUI based test automation tools (Selenium, Protractor)
• Experience with Security / Certifications testing in Cloud environment
• Experience with AI tools like ChatGPT, CoPilot, etc

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