Senior Cloud Developer

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Lead and create test strategies for switch software and cloud deployment.
• Test cloud software systems across various platforms, execute cases covering functionality, compliance, negative, solution, integration, scale, interoperability and performance scenarios.
• Design, build and maintain automated test suites and test infrastructure for hyperscale, multi‑cloud environments.
• Implement test orchestration, environment provisioning and CI/CD integration.
• Review and validate test plans, test cases and QA artifacts against product architecture and quality objectives; identify implementation gaps early and collaborate with development teams to mitigate risks.
• Own quality reviews of team deliverables — defects, test reports and automation scripts — and provide timely, actionable feedback to improve test coverage and reliability.
• Establish guidelines and standards for testing programmable networks and APIs, including REST, GraphQL, YANG, gRPC, and AI‑driven test scenarios.
• Drive innovation and adoption of new tools, frameworks and automation technologies across the cloud QA organization to increase efficiency and reduce flakiness.
• Lead strategic QA initiatives that address real customer challenges (e.g., high‑availability failures, brownfield migrations, scale issues) and translate findings into improvements and preventive checks.
• Troubleshoot complex issues in customer deployments and lab environments using strong debugging, log analysis and diagnostic techniques; develop reproducible tests and automated regression checks.
• Represent the QA organization in technical forums and design/architecture reviews; advocate for observability, testability and fault tolerance.
• Provide tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate risks.
• Innovate new ideas and tools that improve product quality and help business with cost optimization.
• Apply deep solution expertise to proactively test against known deployment pain points.
• Effectively collaborate and communicate with management, across teams, and development partners.
• Continuously identify and prioritize opportunities to optimize test processes, reduce cycle time, and strengthen product quality.
• Contribute to sustaining and enhancing existing features while balancing new development and technical debt remediation.
• Mentor and coach engineers and QA peers, provide guidance on testing best practices, and empower, elevate team capabilities through knowledge sharing.
• What You need to bring: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems
• a related field from a reputed institution. 10–15 years of hands‑on QA testing and automation experience, with a proven track record of delivering high‑quality software on schedule in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated Cloud architect experience, architecting large-scale test and automation programs.
• Strong expertise in solution testing, including designing test topologies, deploying and validating systems, and debugging/troubleshooting across networking and cloud environments.
• Practical experience with greenfield deployments, brownfield migrations, and production considerations such as scale, performance, and latency for cloud environments.
• Direct experience diagnosing and resolving customer issues in live production environments.
• Solid background in Network Management System (NMS) and 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.
• Advanced automation and programming skills (Python, Cypress preferred, or equivalent).
• Experience designing and building automation infrastructure, architecture, and strategy from the ground up.
• Advanced knowledge with at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and common services used for testing and deployment.
• Experience with Kubernetes‑based test orchestration and CI/CD pipelines for networked/clouded systems.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and debugging abilities.
• Hands‑on experience applying AI/ML techniques for test optimization and intelligent synthetic data generation.
• Deep understanding of the product development lifecycle and technical requirements, with solid foundations in computer architecture, data structures, and software engineering best practices.
• Proven experience in a technical leadership role, driving customer issues resolution, actively contributing technically while mentoring and elevating QA capabilities across the team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; self‑motivated, collaborative, proactive and able to present architecture, tradeoffs, and recommendations, clearly to senior management and stakeholders.
• Additional Skills: Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, 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.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are.
• We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
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• We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here.
• We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.
• We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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