6 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end QA for a cloud-based network management platform from requirements through production.
- Test device onboarding, provisioning, configuration, monitoring, upgrades, connectivity, recovery, and multi-site workflows for Access Points, Switches, Routers, and other network devices.
- Develop test strategies, plans, scenarios, cases, coverage, environments, and requirements-to-test traceability.
- Execute functional, integration, system, regression, interoperability, compatibility, API, cloud, UI, and end-to-end testing.
- Build reusable Python, TypeScript, and Playwright automation for APIs, cloud workflows, network management, and web applications.
- Troubleshoot failures across network devices, LAN/WAN, the Internet, AWS, APIs, backend services, databases, and applications using packet captures, logs, traces, and telemetry.
- Manage defects through closure, participate in triage, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate with development, cloud, firmware, and networking teams.
- Provide release-quality recommendations, perform production validation and smoke testing, investigate incidents, and support customer escalations.
- Integrate automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and improve regression coverage and framework reliability.
Requirements
- 10–12 years of QA or quality engineering experience.
- Strong experience testing cloud-based network management solutions and networking devices with cloud services.
- Strong TCP/IP and networking knowledge, including IPv4/IPv6, DHCP, DNS, ARP, ICMP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, NAT, routing, switching, VLAN, QoS, Ethernet, WAN/LAN, Wi-Fi, WPA2/WPA3, and wireless roaming.
- Strong Python automation experience and REST API testing experience.
- Experience with AWS-hosted applications or services and cloud troubleshooting.
- Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and Playwright, Selenium, or an equivalent automation tool.
- Experience with test planning, test case design, technical design and ERD review, defect management, root-cause analysis, and production validation.
- Experience with CI/CD and Wireshark or packet analysis.
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, cloud monitoring, microservices, mobile testing, performance/scalability testing, or security/API security testing is beneficial.
- Experience with NETGEAR Insight or similar cloud-managed networking platforms and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 is beneficial.
- Experience using Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or agentic AI for QA and automation is beneficial.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in Bengaluru.
- NETGEAR states that it provides equal consideration to qualified applicants and maintains confidentiality under EEO guidelines.
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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.