Software Test Engineer (DMF)

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience.  Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 100 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

You will work with software development engineers, product managers, and software test engineers to analyse customer requirements and use cases, gather technical details, create software test plans, and validate that the product meets our customer’s requirements.  You will also work with our customer support and engineering teams to help address escalated customer issues by reproducing, and debugging those in the lab.

The Role will provide opportunities to create real time impact in the network monitoring, deep packet analysis, virtualization technologies and analytics.

What You’ll Do

• Use every means possible to find the bugs in the software and/or hardware being developed by your team.
• Write test plans to validate Arista features and products.
• Design test network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of features and products.
• Execute test plans to verify all aspects of the product. Identify defects and validate resolution.
• Work as an agile member of a combined development and test team, running in short cycles to develop functional software in quick iterations.
• Participate in functional specification and software design reviews and provide customer centric input.

Qualifications

• BS CS/CE/EE plus 3+ years of experience.
• Proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans.
• Fast learner with the ability to quickly absorb new information and apply it effectively.
• Strong knowledge of L2/L3 networking, network security.
• Experience working with similar network monitoring or packet broker solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of Linux fundamentals, shell commands and virtualization principles
• Working knowledge of current virtualization software, tools, protocols, and standards, including vCenter, VMware ESXi/NSX, Nutanix Prism, Linux KVM is a plus.
• Experience with Ixia/Spirent, Wireshark, tcpdump, or a similar network traffic generation or  packet capture/analysis tool
• Experience with open source networking performance test tools (Netperf, Iperf, etc.)

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to operate and maintain a physical test topology in a remote lab environment
• Ability to debug complex problems and isolate bugs from desired behavior
• Ability to do multitasking
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• “The Buck Stops Here” attitude
• Experience with testing DPDK based applications is a plus

Additional Information

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.