Job Description
Arista Networks is a pioneering company that delivers software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments.
Solution Test Group Overview
The Solution Test group ensures the quality of Arista's products through system test type testing of large, complex, and feature-rich end-to-end environments focusing on key technologies and emulating Arista's most important and strategic customers' networks.
Key Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with various stakeholders from development, sales, and other test teams to understand requirements and expectations.
* Plan the building of or add to the existing network topology required to test the use cases.
* Configure hardware, features, traffic generators, and other tools to emulate the required environment.
* Execute exhaustive test plans, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance, and realistic scale.
* Troubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings and work with the development team on reproduction, root cause analysis, fix verification, and bug/limitation documentation.
* Communicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design and performance improvements.
* Interact with the sales team and customers to answer questions, handle ad-hoc requests, and run small demos.
* Collaborate with peers to cross-train on new technologies and improve team effectiveness.
* Help the TAC team with escalations reproduction efforts when needed.
Qualifications
* Master's degree in telecommunications, computer engineering, or computer networking.
* 3+ years of experience in a System test or Solution test role, handling complex end-to-end environments.
* Highly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding, IP multicast, OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, MPLS, eVPN, ECMP, VRRP, STP, RSTP, MST, PVST+, Ethernet link aggregation, LACP, etc.
* Detailed working knowledge of layer-2/3 switch administration, including industry-standard CLI and SNMP interfaces.
* Familiarity with Linux tools such as ping, traceroute, tcpdump, ifconfig, ip link, ip route, arp, /proc/net, /proc/sys/net, vmstat, netstat, ttcp, iperf, and strace.
* Some familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or TCL.
* Strong written and oral communication skills.
* Strong drive to improve quality and curiosity to learn new technologies.
* Able to operate with a high degree of independence, driven by an internal desire to succeed at the challenge of breaking our products.