Automation Engineer
First seen by Alion on Jul 30, 2026.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- Create, maintain, and execute test plans.
- Test Automation Development for Layer2/Layer3 testing on SONiC Platform.
- Understand and review product requirement documents and design documents and work closely with the Software Engineering team during product development in a fast paced environment.
- Maintain test beds for day-to-day activities and to support recreating customer scenarios for handling escalations.
- Troubleshoot and debug customer-reported issues in a timely manner when necessary.
- Assist in identifying and scoping testing efforts for new features, regression, updating status and tracking tasks.
- Work closely with the rest of the QA to ensure top-notch product quality.
- Work with cross functional teams to build manual/automated test suites.
Desired Experience :
- BS/BE/B-Tech or MS/ME/M-Tech degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electronics.
- 5-10 years of manual and automation test experience (Layer2/Layer3) as a QA Engineer.
- Expertise in scripting languages.
- Experience with automation test framework/tools.
- Experience with Traffic Generation tools like Ixia, Spirent.
- Experience with SONiC is a plus.
- Good understanding of Networking concepts and protocols such as Layer2, Layer3, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, RIP, SNMP etc.
- Familiarity with Docker deployment technologies is a plus.
- Excellent analytical skills, troubleshooting/debugging skills, problem diagnosis, creative problem solving and a good eye for detail.
- Excellent collaboration and communication (verbal and written) skills.
- Ability to be flexible and productive in a fast-paced environment with geographically-distributed teams.
- Have a good positive outlook and are always willing to challenge themselves in their day to day undertaking.
- Ability to work effectively as an individual and within small/large group.
Skills
Automation Testing, SonicMQ, Manual Testing, Testing, Ixia, Spirent, TCP/IP, HTTP, SNMP