Sr. Staff Quality Assurance Engineer - Santa Clara, CA

Description

At Gigamon, our purpose is to protect the hybrid networks and data of the world's largest and most complex organizations. Certified as a Great Place to Work, we offer a deep observability pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived intelligence to cloud, security, and observability tools. This helps our customers eliminate security blind spots, optimize network traffic, and significantly reduce tool costs and complexity, enabling them to secure their hybrid cloud infrastructure more effectively and manage it more efficiently. Gigamon has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educational organizations.

Gigamon is looking for a seasoned quality assurance engineer who will be responsible for validating Gigamon’s network visibility fabric product. As part of a growing, dynamic team, the candidate will thrive in a cross-functional team environment and will contribute to test and automation efforts for achieving project quality goals.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise for the system design, operation, and testability of our products with special focus on visibility fabric products.
• Work closely with the software test teams to develop and improve the overall testing approach and strategy.
• Work with the team to develop a solution testing strategy with a focus on automation, including but not limited to customer-centric use cases, replicating enterprise reference architectures, and end-to-end solutions.
• Design, develop, and completely automate Functional, Performance, Scaling, and Stress Testing suites.
• Deliver test automation code and help in driving improvements to our automation coverage.

Requirements:

• BS in CS or related field
• 8+ years of hands-on quality, development, and/or automation experience in the virtualization and networking space
• Extensive test automation and scripting skills (Python or some scripting language)
• Experienced in various aspects of systems testing and QA processes
• Demonstrated experience in testing highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems, including software upgrades, distributed control, and redundancy.
• Knowledge of network management concepts and basic protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, L2/L3 protocols, IPv4, IPv6, REST)
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP layer, HTTP/HTTPS protocols, REST services, and hands-on experience in testing them.
• Experience building and managing vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, preferably in VMware 5.x and 6.x
• Good knowledge and protocol testing experience of application protocols like FTP, DNS, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• Hands-on experience in creating test beds for customer use case-centric as well as scalability and performance testing
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Must have a true passion for delivering quality products

Nice to have:

• Technical knowledge of current virtualization software, tools, protocols, and standards, including vCenter, VMware ESXi, Nutanix, and OpenStack
• Working knowledge of Amazon EC2, Azure, and other cloud platforms and environments
• Experience with network testing equipment such as Spirent, Avalanche, XENA

The base salary compensation range targeted for this role, based out of Gigamon’s Santa Clara, CA, Headquarters office, is [$164,000 - $204,000], with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to the plan's terms and conditions). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.

As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law. For more information, please refer to Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at (669) 240-2248.

If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

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