7 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated test suites for firewall functionality across NGFW, SASE, ZTNA, SWG, VPN, and SD-WAN features.
- Build test topologies and lab environments using virtual machines, containers, and physical firewall appliances.
- Generate and shape network traffic and verify observed firewall behavior against expected policy outcomes.
- Run automated tests in CI, triage failures, distinguish product defects from test or environment issues, and file reproducible defect reports with packet captures and logs.
- Contribute to test plans, test-case design, and automation coverage mapping.
- Support throughput, connections-per-second, concurrent-session, performance, and scale testing.
- Collaborate with developers to improve testability and use automation tooling, including AI-assisted test generation, maintenance, and failure triage.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- 2–4 years of professional experience in QA automation or test engineering, preferably with networking or security products.
- Strong Python and Bash automation skills, Linux command-line experience, and day-to-day Git usage.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, NAT, and routing fundamentals.
- Understanding of packet filtering, stateful connection tracking, NAT, and firewall rule and policy evaluation.
- Hands-on experience with iptables, nftables, conntrack, and iproute2 for Linux networking and test-topology construction.
- Proficiency analyzing logs and network captures with Wireshark, tshark, and tcpdump.
- Experience with pytest or Robot Framework.
- Experience testing REST APIs with Postman, REST Assured, or scripted HTTP clients.
- Experience running automated tests in CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Familiarity with Jira, TestRail, or Xray and communication in an agile, cross-functional team.
- Preferred experience includes traffic-generation and impairment tools, open-source networking or security contributions, firewall security testing, virtualization and containers, infrastructure-as-code, performance and failover testing, AI-assisted testing, SSH/CLI automation, PKI tooling, and firewall logging or telemetry validation.
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About NETGEAR
NETGEAR builds consumer and SMB networking hardware and services—Wi‑Fi routers and mesh systems, Ethernet switches, modems, and network-attached storage—with cloud management and security subscriptions. It sells through retail, online, and channel partners, and works with internet service providers. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, California, NETGEAR is a public company traded on NASDAQ (NTGR) with global distribution across home, business, and service-provider markets.