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Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $8 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience. Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.\nAt Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.\nOur commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.\n Who You’ll Work With\nArista Networks is seeking high-caliber self-motivated test engineers for its enterprise and cloud-managed WiFi products. This role will involve testing and validating complex cloud infrastructure and services that power WiFi networks, ensuring they perform at scale and meet the highest standards of reliability, security, and efficiency. You will play a key role in the design, development, and execution of comprehensive test plans for cloud-based Wi-Fi solutions, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver industry-leading products.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead the testing efforts on the cloud infrastructure that supports Wi-Fi networks, ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience in different environments (Cloud and On-premise deployments)\n Design and execute performance, scalability, and load tests to ensure the cloud services can handle heavy traffic and provide reliable WiFi services under various conditions.\nCollaborate with engineering teams to conduct integration tests for cloud-based services that interface with hardware. Ensure seamless interactions between cloud APIs and the Access Points.\nCreate solution based detailed test plans, test cases, and test reports for all stages of the development lifecycle. Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects.\n“Own” the feature and core area of the product, and be the single point of contact and testing expert for your deliverables. \nTrack defects and issues using defect management systems, ensuring they are escalated appropriately and resolved in a timely manner.\nWork closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide feedback, and ensure high-quality product delivery.\nParticipate in escalations debugging and reproduce the complex issues reported by customers.\nMentor junior team members and share best practices in testing and cloud-based WiFi solution validation. \n Bachelor’s degree in E&TC/EE/CE/CS/IT or a related field; Master’s degree a plus. \n10 - 15 years of experience in testing & troubleshooting Cloud technologies, virtualization, Microservices, and debugging complex software\nGood experience in working with Hadoop & Big data technologies like HDFS, HBase, Spark, Kafka streaming, and Elasticsearch\nGood working knowledge of Database (SQL) and Server side validations.\nExperience with various performance testing methods (Load test, Stress test, and capacity test) will be a plus. \nStrong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals around scalability, elasticity, availability, and fault tolerance.\nExperience in Networking Tools and networking fundamentals across the OSI stack is a plus.\nStrong analytical and debugging skills and proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans. \nStrong knowledge of Linux systems.\nFamiliarity with scripting languages such as Python will be a plus.\nExcellent written and oral English communication skills.\nAdaptive to learning new things and technologies \n Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.\nWe hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.\nOur engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. 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