Staff Software Test Engineer

Calix is seeking a Staff Software Test Engineer to join our team. We are focusing on implementing automation and quality early in the development process. We are creating a new team, with the goal of establishing standards for test planning, biasing towards automation and to establish best practices and improve the quality of our products and to delight our customers.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for defining QA strategy, architecture and execution for all product lines across Software, Web and Mobile.
• Bring high energy, effectiveness at managing relationships (up, down, across), and ability to roll-up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Design and develop advanced test suites using object-oriented methodologies. Implement and execute test strategies on all supported platforms and languages to help improve overall quality and test code coverage.
• Design, implement and execute both functional and Automation test suites. Write backend integration tests and tests for RESTful APIs.Interact with stakeholders to gather insights and translate technical concepts
• Document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and CI/CD.
• Develop new test frameworks for data pipeline validation and streaming data processing.
• Ability to identify risks and errors in applications and tools
• Work collaboratively with development and the QA team to identify test cases and suites best suited for automation
• Design and develop integration, regression, and stress tests using industry standard tools.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Developers to understand requirements and translate them into test cases.
• Good knowledge of Web/UI testing.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in CS, EE, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience as a ETL/Bug Dat test engineer with focus on both manual and automated testing.
• 8+ years of experience and deep understanding of programming in Python/GoLang or Groovy or other languages
• 3+ years of experience Automated Testing Framework, Selenium using Cucumber and Jenkins
• Experience with Cloud computing platforms (Azure/GCP/AWS/Azure)
• Knowledge of database management systems (relational/NoSQL)
• Experience with microservices architecture and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of Big Data technologies (Hadoop, ELT, Spark)
• Knowledge of NLB, S3, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, PrestoDB, Alluxio, Spark jobs, etc.
• Proven track record in leading the architecture, design, development and operations of enterprise scale testing frameworks, processes, methodologies for diverse environments, solutions, and products.
• Proficiency in QA methodologies, software testing principles, concepts, verification/ validation techniques, and test management.
• Excellent analytical, research, documentation, project planning and implementation skills.
• Knowledge of behavior driven development and test driven development
• Ability to adapt and willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.
• Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business.
• Working knowledge of micro-services based API and load testing tools.
• Experience using various bug tracking tools such as Jira, and test management tools such as TestRail or XRay.
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment preferably with a modern build release model that supports continuous delivery.
• Experience working on Network Management Systems is a plus
• Telecom Experience is a plus.