Software Engineer- Automation Engineer with Python and Networking skillset

Skills

Job Description : Automation Engineer with Python and Networking skillset

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for understanding your areas wrt automation and work in its end-to-end customer context.
• Collaborate closely with your agile team, under the guidance of the Test lead and manager to solve problems and drive solutions.
• Implement automated and manual test cases to ensure maximum test coverage for platforms
• Define the Automation strategy along with the test lead and plan best suited for a given platform feature
• Work effectively both within a team and cross-functional team to drive identification and resolution of issues efficiently.
• Utilize your software design, analysis and programming skills to develop innovative automated test cases and tools to ensure maximum test coverage.
• Understand the quality life cycle to include: Automation planning, defect analysis and reporting.
• Effective bug reporting and documenting with ownership driven approach
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of software development process, demonstrated proficiency in designing Automated test cases and contributing to effective planning.
• Execute automated and manual tests on platform software and strong analytical skills that can determine root cause when a failure occurs.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong Hands on experience wrt Automation Skills(Python) along with good knowledge of Networking concepts, with a minimum of 3 years test experience.
• Proficiency in Python Scripting and Object-Oriented Programming Concepts.
• Minimum of 3 years test automation experience with python is required.
• Experience in developing, setting up and working with complex test automation framework for parallel test execution on multiple platforms.
• Knowledge on Hardware clustering, High Availability and Failover systems.
• Strong understanding on Linux Operating system concepts and file systems.
• Working experience in Agile based software delivery models.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools is a plus. Preferably GIT CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of IP networking: routing, switching, and network standards from layer 1 on up through the transport and application layers.
• Experience working with platform hardware at a low-level is a plus
• Creative and innovative problem-solving skills