SONiC Test Engineer

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox SONiC Test EngineerFull-timeCompany DescriptionArista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We  believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.Job DescriptionWho You’ll Work WithArista strengthened its commitment to open network software by introducing Arista switches Powered by SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud). Enabled by a new Arista SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface) offering, customers now have the flexibility to deploy SONiC software on Arista switching platforms, combining the benefits of open-source software with Arista EOS® for open, high performance, highly available networks. https://www.arista.com/en/company/news/press-release/10694-pr-20200505Arista Networks is looking for world-class Software Test Engineers with SONIC expertise to help us in building the highest quality networking products you can buy. At Arista, you’ll spend your time embedded deeply into our development teams, working side by side with the developers, helping us to explore, find and fix our bugs before they can reach our customers. You’ll spend your time working with field-facing teams understanding customer deployments and representing customer use-cases to engineering teams. You will NOT spend your time running manual regressions of mind numbing, 1000 page test plans, because Arista’s developers automate all the basic functional and integration tests. Instead, you’ll bring your intelligence, creativity, and drive to work every day to help us understand how our products are going to be used by our customers and to make sure that they’re going to work every time. Your job is to find the hard bugs, the ones not easily exposed by the developers’ automated unit and product level tests.What You’ll Do Use every means possible to find the bugs in the software and/or hardware being developed by your team.Write test plans to validate Arista features and products.Design test network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of features and products.Execute test plans to verify all aspects of the product. Identify defects and validate resolution.Work as an agile member of a combined development and test team, running in short cycles to develop functional software in quick iterations.Work with the developers in creating their plans for automated tests to complement the exploratory testing that you perform. Be the testing expert for your team.Participate in functional specification and software design reviews held by the development team and provide customer centric input.QualificationsBS CS/CE/EE plus 3+ years of experience in networking. MS degree preferredA minimum of one year of hands-on experience testing SONiC is a must (manual testing experience strongly desired).Strong working knowledge of SONiC architecture - SAI, FRR open routing stack (formerly Quagga, Zebra), Redis-DB, docker and minigraphHands on...