Network QA Engineer
Posting status: Regular, Full Time
Work Location: Hybrid, Mississauga ON
What you will be doing:
Are you interested in helping to secure and enable reliable operations of a nation’s critical infrastructure? Our Company develops products and solutions that do just that. Utilizing the companies designed secure networking and edge computing platform for Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT applications, the Company is developing innovative cybersecurity, industrial communications, big data, and AI/machine learning solutions for Smart Grids, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and other critical infrastructure industries.
Our Company is seeking individuals to help build the next generation solutions for our global customer base at our Corporate Headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario. Our Company is currently looking for a creative and experienced Network QA Engineer with a great can-do attitude and passion for network testing/ troubleshooting. The Network QA Engineer will be a part of our QA team and participate in team activities such as functional and system level test execution, regression, performance, stability, interoperability testing. Along with the QA team the candidate will be interacting with testing and development teams in multiple locations.
Responsibilities:
The role will include understanding our customer requirements & product solutions, forming knowledge and opinions about system level test coverage, being a writer and/or a key reviewer for system test plans & coverage, and providing technical knowledge sharing inside the company. The primary responsibilities of the role will be:
- Design and develop test cases for network equipment. • Configuring QA network test environments in both L2 and L3.
- Reviewing the test plan and making improvements and suggestions as required.
- Performing QA of new and existing products according to the test plan and generating a test report prior to product/feature/code release.
- Investigating reported product bugs, reproducing reported issues, performing root cause analysis and communicating details to the development team for fixing.
- Testing engineering provided code fixes and validating bug resolution.
- Collaborating with other QA team members on test cases, root cause analysis and test plan improvements.
- Collaborating with our development team on open code issues, bug fixes and feature requests/product feedback.
- Support customer-based activities like problem investigation and presale activities.
Qualifications:
- Degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or equivalent areas with 5+ years of practical work experience.
- Role requires hands-on experience performing manual QA testing in the NETWORKING industry.
- Role requires hands-on experience with network emulating and debugging tools. (iXIA, Spirent, Wireshark).
- Outstanding technical & hands-on expertise in system testing execution, system test planning, and customer issues troubleshooting & resolution (required).
- Must have experience of working on Layer2 Ethernet technologies (RSTP; LLDP, Multicast Filtering, IGMP snooping, 802.1.x, etc.).
- Experience of working on Layer3 IP technologies (IPv4/IPv6, SNMP, IPSEC, VRRP, RIP, ISIS, OSPF, BGP, EIRGP, MPLS, PBR, ACL etc.).
- Knowledge or experience in Spirent ITest an asset.
- Cisco CCNA/CCNP certification an asset.
- Experience in Automation Test Development (TCL/Perl/Python) an asset. • Experience with NMS system level testing will be applicable an asset. • Excellent communication skills (written and spoken)
- To fit in our growing and diverse team, you must be:
- A critical thinker and problem solver.
- Have excellent communication skills both written and spoken.
- Proactive and energetic, creative and a self-starter.
- Team-oriented and collaborator, committed to the organization and its vision.
iS5 Communications Inc. is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights code. iS5 Communications Inc. will provide accommodations throughout all aspects of the recruitment process, upon request from
candidates.
