Ciena

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

How You Will Contribute:

• Scale and Performance engineer shall be responsible for validating feature scale and performance, run manual or automation S&P tests against all supported features developed across Ciena's Routing and Switching platform portfolio.
• Work involves scale and performance validation along robustness test and automate test plans to verify product capabilities. Execution of feature scale test-plans, test bed design, test topologies, Test Automation & test Executions. Set up complex test beds based on Project requirements. Assist development engineers in product defect diagnosis/debugging and verification of fixes.
• Day-to-day activities include planning, designing, automating, and validating tests around scale, performance, longevity and robustness tests across all supported features or feature combinations (Uni-D and Multi-D) to validate system behavior at limit and endurance. Develop test-plans, plan and design test-topologies and test methodologies with optimal resource usage.
• Prepare/Automate robust, quality, S&P scripts with robustness and longevity also in perspective with optimal CPU and memory measurement reading mechanisms, and feature/systemic performance measurement mechanisms.
• Use JIRA to file defects following proper template, and all logs/debug command output/traffic flow footprint, etc. relevant to the problem description.
• Assist development engineers in product defect diagnosis/debugging/reproduction and verification of fixes.
• Execution of test cases and reporting test results with artifacts using Test Rail
• Work closely with engineers across teams/geographies to ensure quality for the features.
• Position requires troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Understand Software Development Life Cycle.
• Conducts Knowledge Sharing Sessions (Desirable): Basic to moderate topics, including specific product feature or functional areas related the assigned features.
• Able to manage feature and schedule churns with minimal guidance.
• Contribute to team deliverable through involvement in agile scrum development sprints.

The Must Haves:

• 5-8 years of experience in telecommunication and testing.
• Experience with Python/Tcl/Expect is a must.
• Fluency and experience in data communication systems, networking, Ethernet switches and Routers.
• Hands-on experience with L2/L3 topologies.
• Strong testing experience in some of the Layer-2 protocols like Ethernet Switching, VLANs, G.8032, CFM,Y.1731,BFD,VPLS,VPWS,QoS and L3 protocols like BGP, IS-IS, OSPF
• Working experience in areas like EVPN, L2VPN,L3VPN and in transports like MPLS,SR,LDP,RSVP
• Experience with traffic generators such as Ixia, Spirent.

The Good To Haves:

• Good knowledge of network design and deployment scenarios in Carrier/Metro Ethernet Space is plus.
• Netconf/GNMI/Telemetry exposure is an added advantage.

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