Senior QA Engineer

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a steadfast pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more adaptable every day. This means the majority of your daily, digital interactions in your world, whether streaming video, using your voice A.I, video or voice calls to a friend or loved one – are enabled by Ciena technologies.

Blue Planet, the Software division of Ciena, provides outstanding intelligent automation software and niche professional services to help clients modernize their IT and network operations. Driven by policy and AI-based insights, Blue Planet delivers the closed-loop automation tools needed to align IT and networking processes—critical to facilitating digital transformation and an adaptive network. If you want to be part of the company that delivers these outcomes, then the Blue Planet division of Ciena is the place to be. (Visit www.blueplanet.com.)

Technical Experience / Skills Required

Experience working with and testing Network components in any of the following domains:

Layer-0/1 DWDM, OTN

Layer-2 MPLS/carrier grade switches

Layer-3 Routers

• Solid understanding of databases like Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra, Neo4j
• Understanding of OAM&P-based products and their project lifecycle, including Service Layer Management, Inventory Management and Connection Management.
• Automated test development experience using Python, JavaScript, Postman, Selenium, Cucumber, WebdriverIO and Protractor
• Automation execution experience in a DevOps environment such as Gitlab, Bitbucket, Teamcity
• Experience working with Microservice Based Architecture: Docker, Containers
• Understanding of network management software solutions in a Unix/Linux/VM/Cloud-based environment.
• Knowledge of networking concepts (TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, MPLS)
• Experience working with Rest APIs based on Yang/Netconf model.

Educational Requirements

A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications or equivalent is highly desired.

About Ciena

Ciena is a network strategy and technology company with a passion to provide an experience to you and our customers that is as exciting as the outcome. We attract the best and brightest– those with outstanding talent, motivation, and the right attitude to contribute to our success. Our culture balances our openness and informality with integrity and trust and is built on the foundation of our core values: Customer First, Integrity, Velocity, Innovation, and Outstanding People.

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

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