Nexthop AI
Test Engineer
Santa Clara, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Apr 3, 2025
- Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience in test, QA, or solutions testing roles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Tests networking products and solutions through manual and automated testing, release qualification, testbed maintenance, and collaboration on customer trials and fault investigation.
What you'll do
- Conduct platform, functional, feature, solution, and regression testing; build and enhance test automation with scripting.
- Design and maintain testbeds, qualify software releases, and deliver on quality metrics.
- Support customer-specific testing during POCs and help engineering teams reproduce faults and prevent recurring bugs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on testing experience and proficiency in networking technologies, protocols, designs, deployments, and diverse NOS.
- Experience with well-known traffic generators and network test hardware and software solutions.
- Ability to write test plans and debug and troubleshoot complex hardware and software networking issues.
Nice to have
- Experience with SONiC or another open-source OS.
- Scripting or programming languages, automation tools, AI development tools, container technologies, or databases.
Tools
IOS, IOS-XR, EOS, Junos, SONiC, Python, Ansible, Docker
AI focus
AI development tools (e.g., Gemini, Co-pilot, Augment) are listed as a plus; no other AI work is stated.
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