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Summary Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one – your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies.
Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL. Ciena's existing Packet Products portfolio comprises of a broad family of products for access and aggregation tiers of the network.

Your role Ciena is seeking New Graduate Software QA Engineers to complete a placement in our engineering team and help drive the testing and development of the Service Aware Operating System (SAOS), in order to support our customers in developing and deploying their virtualized networks.

As a QA Software Engineer you will be creating and running tests to find defects in a feature. You will review feature design documents, create a testplan, execute tests, raising any bugs you find and work with development engineers to fix that bug. Test Automation is a significant part of the role and you will automate all tests in python to allow continual automated regression tests of images.

As a new hire, you will have an assigned Mentor and access to excellent opportunities to build your knowledge, skills and experience and progress forward within the team.

QA Roles and Responsibilities:

• Participate in review of requirements and contribute to detail specification of features for new networking products
• Define test plans and test cases, to ensure known quality prior to the release of new features
• Execute test cases, maintain and report on product feature performance, conformance, and regression status
• Work closely with engineers across teams to ensure quality for the features.
• Automate QA testing for the features in each release
• Share in maintaining core test automation with the team
• Record and track product defects
• Recreate customer-reported defects to clarify problem definitions

Knowledge and Experience

• MCA or M. Tech. or B. Tech. in Computer Science / IT / Electronics / Cyber Security or similar.
• An understanding of all stages of a Software development lifecycle
• Network hardware setup and triage
• Experience of cloud networks or network virtualization
• Open Source project contribution
• Object-oriented python and/or pytest experience desirable (or similiar scripting, and/or C++ experience).
• Knowledge and demonstrated usage of Linux OS (ideally Debian) desirable.
• Any knowledge of Atlassian toolset (Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira)
• Knowledge of network routers/switches or routing protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, etc.) and services (DHCP, DNS, etc)
• Can demonstrate an understanding of computer hardware architecture and operating system architecture.
• Knowledge of AI/Machine Learning and application of this technology in the QA Lifecycle would also be advantageous.

Skills

• Ability to analyse and critique software functionality.
• Problem solving.
• Can describe visible symptoms of a problem, and propose alternative ways to approach the diagnosis of the underlying issue.

Attitude

• Tenacious
• Able to articulate problems found
• Able to work in small teams and individually
• Inquisitive & conscientious at investigating problems
• Collaborative

Additional Information

We can offer you an unparalleled opportunity to gain in-depth networking knowledge, working alongside a diverse and industry leading team of network engineers, building components to support customer network services and our own network infrastructure, including bring-ups on new emerging prototype hardware. You must be currently based in the UK and hold a valid permanent work permit for the country

Location

The team are located in the heart of Edinburgh, just a few minutes’ walk from Haymarket station.

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