Software Engineer - QA & Automation @Alkira
Quality Assurance
Salary unspecified
Remote Location
Employment Type full-time
Posted 1wk ago

[Hiring] Software Engineer - QA & Automation @Alkira

1wk ago - Alkira is hiring a remote Software Engineer - QA & Automation. πŸ’Έ Salary: unspecified πŸ“Location: India

Role Description

The QA & Automation team is the quality gate for every product release. It owns our in-house automated test framework β€” a Python, Terraform, and Jenkins-based system that runs large-scale regression suites continuously across all major public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI). Beyond release validation, the team builds scaling and performance tests that prove the platform keeps up with customer and traffic growth, and develops Terraform-driven deployment automation that makes large customer onboardings fast and repeatable. The team works across multiple geographies, so you'll collaborate with engineers in different time zones.

We are looking for a Software Engineer - QA & Automation to join our growing team in Bengaluru, India.

Responsibilities

  • Work in a fast paced team to solve important customer problems
  • Work closely with product development and engineering teams to understand testing requirements
  • Develop, execute and automate feature test plans to validate product capabilities
  • Design and develop automation framework
  • Build and maintain automation scripts required to ensure quality via continuous functional regression
  • Collaborate with development teams to identify, report, and resolve issues found during testing
  • Analyze any customer-found defects, identify the test gaps and ensure they are covered in regression
  • Contribute to a culture of constant innovation and continuous improvement
  • Participate in product documentation reviews

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in highly technical roles in QA and automation
  • Very strong Python programming skills
  • Experience with networking product testing and good understanding of management, control and data plane architecture in networking products
  • Hands-on experience with standard TCP/IP protocols such as ARP, IP, ICMP, TCP & UDP
  • Good knowledge and experience in networking protocols like BGP, VxLAN, IPSec, L3
  • Experience and good domain knowledge with cloud-based deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP experience preferred)
  • Experience with RESTful APIs
  • Experience with firewalls or SD-WAN devices is a plus
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to quickly grasp new concepts
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
  • Familiarity with Virtualization technologies - QEMU/KVM, VMWare ESXi, Containers like Docker
  • Familiarity with Network Virtualization technologies like SDN, Overlay Protocols (VxLAN), DPDK and VNF

Company Description

Alkira, a Lumen company, is building the future of enterprise networking: one programmable platform to connect, secure, and operate every cloud, site, partner, data center, and AI workload.

Founded by Amir and Atif Khan, the creators of Viptela and pioneers of the SD-WAN market, Alkira was built to radically simplify how enterprises deploy and manage network infrastructure. Today, as part of Lumen, we are bringing that cloud-native operating model to a global network foundation trusted by the world’s largest enterprises.

Our platform helps customers move faster without managing hardware, stitching together providers, or operating fragmented cloud networks. Teams can build and scale connectivity on demand, apply consistent security and segmentation, and gain visibility across distributed environments from one place.

At Alkira, you’ll help shape the next chapter of networking: cloud-like consumption, private-network performance, and total control across the enterprise. We move fast, solve hard problems, and build technology that changes how global businesses connect.

Join us and help build the future of networking.

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