Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and automated test suites for cloud-native observability solutions.
- Develop and maintain end-to-end test automation frameworks and CI/CD-integrated pipelines.
- Investigate, reproduce, and validate software defects and customer-reported issues while supporting root cause analysis and defect prevention.
- Validate distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, and Kubernetes-based deployments for operational readiness.
- Perform regression, performance, reliability, upgrade, deployment, and platform-level testing.
- Drive escaped defect analysis, data-driven quality improvements, and quality engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with development, product, and operations teams to improve product quality, reliability, scalability, and release readiness.
- Apply AI-powered testing tools and intelligent automation techniques where appropriate.
Requirements
- Engineering degree and 5+ years of experience in system testing, QA automation, or quality engineering for cloud-native, distributed, or enterprise software products.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks, API testing, end-to-end system validation, regression testing, and CI/CD-integrated automation.
- Expertise validating microservices-based applications, distributed systems, REST APIs, and complex multi-component deployments.
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, containers, and Helm, including deployment validation, troubleshooting, upgrade testing, and platform verification.
- Experience testing large-scale data ingestion, streaming, and observability platforms involving Kafka and telemetry pipelines.
- Knowledge of metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry, OTLP, PromQL, VMQL, VictoriaMetrics, and monitoring-driven validation.
- Experience with Jenkins, performance testing, reliability testing, defect analysis, escaped defect analysis, debugging, and root cause analysis.
- Preferred experience with AI-powered testing, intelligent test automation, AI-assisted quality engineering, observability or AIOps-driven validation, telecom network management, network analytics, autonomous networks, and Agile/Scrum environments.
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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.