Responsibilities
- Drive the end-to-end quality engineering strategy for Core Management System functional areas.
- Design, develop, and evolve automation frameworks for functional and non-functional validation.
- Define automation-first quality practices across CI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
- Apply AI-powered test automation tools to improve coverage and defect detection.
- Validate functional, integration, system, API, performance, reliability, and end-to-end behaviors.
- Validate large-scale data ingestion, ETL, streaming, event-driven systems, and observability workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to identify quality risks and establish quality standards.
- Mentor QA and automation engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Drive continuous improvement in test strategies, observability-driven validation, and quality processes.
- Serve as Scrum Master for a SAFe agile team and support planning and execution of team objectives.
Requirements
- Engineering degree and 8+ years of experience in test automation, quality engineering, and cloud-native application validation.
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Expertise designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks.
- Hands-on experience validating data ingestion, ETL, streaming, and event-driven systems with Kafka, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, and MariaDB.
- Strong knowledge of observability and telemetry platforms, including OpenTelemetry, OTLP, PromQL, VMQL, metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring workflows.
- Understanding of telecom network management, SNMP, 3GPP standards, and network function monitoring.
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, containerized deployments, Jenkins, Helm, and Kubernetes is desirable.
- Experience with scalability, performance, resiliency, reliability, failover, and high-availability testing is desirable.
- Prior Scrum Master experience is preferred.
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About Infinera
Infinera is now part of Nokia. Infinera is revolutionizing telecommunications networks with innovative, industry-leading connectivity solutions. Our offerings include high-end subcomponent technology, systems for network infrastructure, automation software, advanced optical compound semiconductor manufacturing, & professional services. As a global supplier, we empower mobile service providers, internet content providers, cloud operators, submarine operators, governments & enterprises to scale network bandwidth, boost service innovation, and automate network operations. We are committed to continuously expanding and enhancing our world-class offerings to meet the changing needs of our customers. Our connectivity solutions are powered by the world’s best embedded & pluggable optical engines, which are designed, developed & manufactured in Infinera’s U.S.-based optical semiconductor fabrication center and are application-optimized for edge, metro, long-haul, and submarine transport networks. Our agile, open, compact & modular networking platforms enable network operators to rapidly and easily take advantage of best-in-class technology. Our software automation solutions optimize traffic flows and automate workloads to enable network operators to cost-effectively deliver secure bandwidth to their customers where and when needed. With these solutions, our goal is to create a connected world with unlimited bandwidth for everyone – everywhere, always, and instantly. What Inspires Us? A connected world with unlimited bandwidth for everyone – everywhere, always & instantly. What Motivates Us? Delivering innovative and impactful coherent optical technologies and open optical solutions that unlock new value for our customers. What Drives Us? To be a valued investment for our shareholders’ money, our customers’ CapEx and our employees’ time by delivering an unrivaled customer experience from an inclusive culture of innovation for our customers.