| Duties & Responsibilites : | Key Duties:
• Leverage your excellent customers focused skills and expansive networking and software development expertise by collaborating with customer(s) to determine testing and business requirements, and translate these requirements into technical solutions.
• Act as principal consultant for defining and developing automated testing solutions (e.g., requirements definition, engagement management, and post project review).
• Testing duties can include test bed design, setup, and configuration, test software installation and customization, custom test script and software development, test execution, and generating thorough documentation and reports.
• Code, unit test, and system test automated solutions for in-depth testing of telecommunications and networking products, services, and technologies (e.g. BGP, OSPF, MPLS, ISIS, RSVP, IGMP, MLDv2, etc.).
• Serve as a consultant and resource to other engineers in the areas of automation technologies such as scripting languages, product APIs, and software applications.
• Demonstrate your leadership as you share your knowledge with teammates in the areas of TCP/IP, routing protocols, MPLS, network test methodologies, test tool usage, test plan development and execution, and automation.
• Work closely and collaboratively with telecommunications industry test experts, including the Global Services team, Product Management, Sales, and Engineering.
• Become an expert in test methodologies, assisting both internal and external customers test method development, execution, and analysis.
• Learn and remain highly technically proficient on platforms, software, and APIs. These include Spirent TestCenter, Avalanche, Landslide, and iTest.
• Provide weekly status reports to management.
• Significant travel (up to 20-30%) to customer labs.
Required Skills:
• Extensive network test automation experience and awareness of automation tools and methods.
• Product development cycle experience.
• Inbound and outbound marketing knowledge/experience helpful.
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix.
• Programming Languages: TCL/TK, C/C++, Java, Perl.
• Networking: expert knowledge of protocols and technologies, including: layer 2 protocols (ATM, Ethernet, POS), MPLS (RSVP, LDP), IP and IP routing protocols (IPv4, IPv6, BGP, OSPF, etc.), TCP/IP, application layer and network security (HTTP, SSL, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, IPSec, etc.).
• Detailed knowledge of network equipment: switches, routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, caches, server load balancers, VPNs, SSL-VPNs, file servers, Web servers, and database servers.
• Systems troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent English verbal and proven written communication skills.
• Certifications desirable: CCNA, CCNP, CCSP,
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