Senior Wired Network Test & QA Engineer

California  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Description:

- 5+ years of L2 & L3 feature and protocol testing.
- Must have experience of Functional/Feature Testing as well as System Testing.
- Education: BS EE/CS required

Scope of Responsibility
This position will perform testing of Wireless LAN (WLAN) switching/access point products employing advanced security.
- Design, develop and execute network test solutions for wireless infrastructure products, including scripts for automated regression testing.
- Identify, reproduce, characterize and log bugs. Verify fixes for bugs and plan/execute additional tests needed for fix verification.
- Perform performance, interoperability, and scaling tests. Analyze failures and defects, and recommend corrective actions.
- Proactively work with engineers debugging software and hardware solutions during new product development. Engineer must have good interpersonal communications and be able to understand a technological problem set and describe the situation under test to fellow software team members.
- Engineer must be self-motivated and passionate about software testing and be thorough and detail oriented.
- Candidate must be able to learn new technologies quickly. Set up customer configurations and test at System and Solution level.

Skill Set
- Excellent test methodology skills in software testing. Creative approach to isolating problem areas involving multiple hardware and software variables.
- Strong knowledge of and in depth, hands on experience testing networking products - (examples TCP/IP, VoIP, XML, WIFI, Linux, etc.)
- Excellent network administration skills are necessary. Need to setup test environments with Linux based systems using Radius AAA, DHCP, etc. for local test fixtures.
- Strong knowledge of L2 (Bridging, STP, MSTP, RSTP, 802.1q, 802.3ad), L3 ( routing, RIP, OSPF) and Security (IP Sec, Firewall, IDS, NAC)
- Strong knowledge with System Test - L2/L3, performance, scalability testing
- Demonstrated experience of using network monitoring and analysis tools to debug Ethernet/IP layer problems.
- Ability to automate is required. Solid automation experience (Perl/Tcl) a plus.
- Knowledge of 802.11/WiFi technologies, with specific focus on Access Points and Wireless Switches. Wireless Sniffer experience is desirable.
- CCIE, CCIE Security a plus.

Education
- BS EE/CS required.

Must have Automation experience
Must have Wired Protocol Testing
Must have Switching experience
* Seeking Test Engineers: They want testers who can also create scripts.
* Capable to setup a Network

Synectics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
01.08.2012
Project ID:
400694
Contract type
Freelance
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