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At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.\n Who You’ll Work With\nArista Networks is seeking high-caliber Solution test engineers.\nThe key role of the Solution test group is to ensure the quality of Arista’s products through System test type testing of large, complex and feature rich end-to-end environments focusing on key technologies as well as emulating Arista’s most important and strategic customers networks by:\nresearching technologies, features and customer environments in order to come up with the right topologies to test\nexercising extensive feature interaction and identifying potential breakage areas\nexhaustive testing focusing on realistic use cases, scale and performance\nWhat You’ll Do\nCollaborate with various stakeholders from the development, sales and other test teams to understand requirements and expectations\nPlan the building of, or add to the existing network topology required to test the use cases\nConfigure hardware, features, traffic generators and other tools to emulate the required environment\nExecute exhaustive testplan, focusing on potential weaker areas, performance and realistic scale\nTroubleshoot failures and performance shortcomings and work with the development team on reproduction, root cause analysis, fix verification and bug/limitation documentation\nCommunicate and present results to various stakeholders while providing feedback and recommendations on potential design and performance improvements\nInteract with sales team and customers to answer questions, handle ad-hoc requests and run small demos\nCollaborate with peers to cross-train on new technologies and improve team effectiveness\nHelp the TAC team with escalations reproductions efforts when needed\n Masters degree in telecommunications, computer engineering, computer networking\n3+ years of experience in a System test or Solution test role, handling complex end-to-end environments.\nHighly detailed working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 technologies such as IP forwarding, IP multicast, OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, MPLS, eVPN, ECMP, VRRP, STP, RSTP, MST, PVST+, Ethernet link aggregation, LACP, etc\nDetailed working knowledge of layer-2/3-switch administration, including industry-standard CLI and SNMP interfaces\nFamiliarity with Linux tools such as ping, traceroute, tcpdump, ifconfig, ip link, ip route, arp, /proc/net, /proc/sys/net, vmstat, netstat, ttcp, iperf, and strace\nSome familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or TCL\nStrong written and oral communication skills\nStrong drive to improve quality and curiosity to learn new technologies\nAble to operate with a high degree of independence, driven by an internal desire to succeed at the challenge of breaking our products\n The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $105,000 to $145,000. 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