Network Test Engineer(Python/Automation)

Required Technical Background

Networking

• Strong Layer 2 and Layer 3 fundamentals
• BGP (critical — non-negotiable)
• Data-center fabrics and IP fabric concepts
• VXLAN and EVPN
• Routing and switching
• Ability to troubleshoot system- and solution-level networking issues
• CCNP-equivalent depth
• OSPF exposure is helpful but secondary to BGP

Automation

• Strong Python skills
• Experience developing or maintaining network test automation
• Ability to read and understand existing automation code
• Ability to evaluate whether generated or existing code is technically correct
• Experience automating system, solution, or network test cases
• Ability to translate a networking test scenario into an automation approach
• Not required: application development or algorithm-heavy software engineering background

Preferred (Strong Plus)

• SONiC experience
• FBOSS experience
• Experience automating tests in a SONiC environment
• Data-center network operating systems exposure
• Python-based network test frameworks, especially pyATS or similar

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Understands the networking behavior being tested, not just the automation syntax
• Knows what the automation is intended to validate
• Can review code (including AI-generated code) and judge whether the output is technically correct
• Comfortable troubleshooting both automation failures and underlying networking issues
• Thrives in a collaborative system/solution test environment
• Ramps quickly and operates with limited guidance

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