Cloud Developer III

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Contribute to and execute test strategies for switch software and cloud deployments, covering functionality, compliance, negative, solution, integration, scale, interoperability and performance scenarios.
• Design, develop and maintain automated test cases and suites for APIs, microservices and containerized applications; integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable validation.
• Build and maintain test environments and test data for multi‑cloud or hybrid setups; use containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) to reproduce and validate issues.
• Develop and validate test plans, test cases and QA artifacts against product architecture and defined quality objectives; raise gaps and work with developers to resolve them.
• Perform root cause defect analysis in lab and staging environments using logs, metrics and traces; create reproducible test cases, defects with elaborate details, along with regression checks.
• Execute and report on targeted performance, scalability or interoperability tests as required for assigned components.
• Follow and help refine guidelines for testing programmable APIs and networked interfaces (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, YANG).
• Adopt and propose improvements to QA tooling and automation practices to reduce flakiness and improve efficiency.
• Participate in design and architecture reviews, peer test plan reviews to represent testability gaps and help define acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams (development, SRE/DevOps, product) to clarify requirements and support release readiness.
• Share knowledge by mentoring junior QA engineers and contributing to team documentation and best practices.
• Support sustaining activities for existing features while contributing to new development and technical debt remediation.
• What You need to bring: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field from a reputed institution.
• Master's desirable. 5–8 years of hands‑on QA testing and test automation experience, ideally with exposure to cloud‑native systems delivering high‑quality software on schedule in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Good background in core networking technologies and protocols (routing, switching).
• Areas like IP, VLAN, LACP, STP/MSTP, BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, QoS, Multicast, High Availability and Stacking systems.
• Testing experience in Network Management System (NMS) is a plus.
• Strong scripting/programming skills for API and UI automation (Python, Cypress, Playwright preferred; Java, Go, JavaScript, Selenium acceptable).
• Solid debugging and troubleshooting skills, including log and metric analysis to diagnose integration and runtime issues.
• Strong technical role in the current position, record delivering software projects on-time and with high quality.
• Good experience building and maintaining automated test suites and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub).
• Exposure in solution testing, understanding of designing test topologies, deploying and validating systems, and debugging/troubleshooting across networking and cloud environments.
• Exposure to diagnosing and resolving customer issues in live production environments.
• Practical experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and testing applications in containerized environments.
• Strong knowledge with at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and common services used for testing and deployment.
• Good and clear understanding of software development lifecycle, test planning, defect lifecycle and quality metrics.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams.
• Self‑motivated, independent, organized, flexible and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
• Exposure to performance/load testing tools and basic capacity/scalability testing.
• Familiarity with environment provisioning and observability tooling (ArgoCD, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Prior experience mentoring or leading small technical initiatives.
• Familiarity with AI/ML techniques for test optimization and intelligent synthetic data generation.
• Additional Skills: Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX) What We Can Offer You: Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
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