Platform Test Engineer

Meet the Team

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] SDWAN focuses on simplifying and securing enterprise WANs, enabling seamless cloud connectivity, automating network operations, and ensuring optimal application performance through advanced SD-WAN solutions. Our Team works on [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] SD-WAN solutions that help enterprises build resilient, secure, and scalable wide area networks for distributed branch, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Your Impact

• Establish Define and drive the comprehensive test strategy and validation for the [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Secure Router Platform, including conducting deep-dive performance analysis to identify and resolve bottlenecks at the kernel, hardware-abstraction, data and control plane layers.
• As Platform Test engineer, you need to test Hardware, Software, Programmable and certify SFP/optics interoperable with [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Secure routers.
• Performance Debugging: Perform deep-dive analysis into performance bottlenecks at the kernel and hardware-abstraction layers including control plane.
• Design and evolve scalable test frameworks, test automation, and validation pipelines for both software and hardware.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, product management, hardware, and TAC teams to define quality goals, test scope, and execution plan.
• Contribute to customer demos and technical presentations to showcase product and solution capabilities.
• Represent the test organization in cross-functional forums to influence release decisions, risk assessment, and quality metrics.
• Modern Test Practices: Utilize modern Test workflows, including AI-assisted coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Codex) and integrated development environments like VSCode, to accelerate the development lifecycle and improve code quality.

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or an equivalent technical discipline (BE/ME/CS/AI/ML).
• 5-8 years of proven industry experience in testing Layer 1, Layer 2, and Layer 3 networking products, platform validation, and product development.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with expertise in requirements analysis, test plan creation, execution, and release validation.
• Extensive hands-on experience in platform testing, PHY/MAC layer validation, and high-speed interface integrity testing.
• Demonstrated ability to architect robust test plans and map them to critical platform testing areas.
• Deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience conducting deep-dive testing of MACsec, Port-Channels, Flow Control, and Quality of Service (QoS).
• 4+ years of experience and strong proficiency in driving test automation development using Python and REST APIs.
• Expert-level troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Solid foundation in Linux operating systems and hands-on experience with virtualization technologies.
• Hands-on expertise with industry-standard network traffic generators (Ixia, Spirent) and protocol analyzers (Wireshark).
• Proficiency in utilizing Git for source code and version control management.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Why [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]?

At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.