Senior QA Engineer

VON Consulting is an HR Consultancy company, providing solutions and services in the following areas: recruitment and executive search, personnel leasing, payroll, administration and training.

Knowledge:

Required to have advanced working knowlege of networking TCP/IP protocols (CCNP level).
Security and application protocols are a plus: SSL, IPsec, etc.
Wireless technologies are also considered a plus: GTP, LTE.
Required to have strong scripting skils (Python preferred).
Required to have strong Linux operating skills
Required to have experience with automation frameworks.
Working experience in Agile

· QA practices:

Required to design and document test plan and test cases for major features.
Required to provide accurate effort estimations
Required to track progress and spot potential risks in a timely manner
Required to maintain up to date documentation (TP/TC)
Required to provide input in customer escalations

· Skills:

Required to configure equipment for medium – major feature (without supervision).
Required to debug and troubleshoot equipment. Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
Required to maintain constant pace of TC execution.
Required to detect and communicate testing delays and bottlenecks.
Required to provide improvement suggestions on current processes and products

· Process:

Knowledgeable about tools and debug techniques (Wireshark, Perforce, SVN, Jenkins, automation harness); Able to provide technical guidance to junior team members.
Required to communicate in clear and concise manner with QA/Dev groups/Support Teams/Customers
Bugs: Root cause isolation, steps to reproduce, problem description, proper logs and files attached.

· Level of independence:

Some supervision needed on technical aspects and occasional mentoring for personal growth.

Will execute complex test cases, design and write test plans for important software features and maintain up to date documentation related to it;

Required to provide accurate effort estimation, progress tracking and status reporting;

Required to have good communication skills for team interaction and customer related activities;

Required to take ownership over customer specific escalations;

Able to configure, debug and troubleshoot equipment required for testing large features (with minimal to no supervision);

Required to raise delays and bottlenecks in testing activities and plans; required to suggest mitigation plans;

Required to make use of the best methods and techniques for providing solutions and workarounds;

Have working knowledge of debugging tools and techniques;

Capable of root cause isolation and proper bugs logging to focus on problem description, steps to reproduce, relevant logs and files attachment;

Able to provide guidance to junior team members;

Minimum experience: 4+ years.

QA engineers will learn:

To work with cutting edge technologies such as New Generation Firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto), switches, routers (Cisco, Juniper, F5) and other equipment having 40 & 100Gbps bandwidth solutions.

Scripting: TCL, Python.

Security protocols such as: IPsec, SSL.

Wireless protocols: LTE, GTP.

How to simulate real-world scenarios of stateful application traffic: Facebook, World of Warcraft and thousands more.

A whole range from Layer2-3 (MAC/IP) to L7 apps.

About software development processes: Agile/Scrum.