Hybrid Senior Engineer – Solution Automation

at Calix

• Job title: Senior Engineer – Solution Automation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cypress, Selenium
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bangalore, India

About the role

• Senior Engineer developing test strategies for end-to-end customer deployment scenarios. Working independently to achieve team goals in a flexible hybrid work model.

Responsibilities

• Independently set day-to-day work priorities while working to achieve the goals of the team/organization.
• Develop test strategies for end-to-end customer deployment scenario testing.
• Understanding test automation principles, common automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright), and how automation fits into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Ability to read and understand automation reports.
• Create test cases to validate customer deployment scenarios and overall solution.
• Execute and monitor tests to report system issues and test results.
• Perform regression testing on new software and hardware, scalability tests and evaluate compliance to specifications.
• Reproduce field issues and validate their resolution.
• Familiarity with traffic generators to create real-world traffic streams for video, data, and voice related testing.
• Analyze log files to capture error conditions.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues.
• Clearly describe system-faults in issue tracking products.
• Work with multiple internal cross-functional teams, as well as 3rd parties, to analyze test results and field scenarios.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical knowledge/experience working with NMS/EMS systems is required.
• Excels at learning quickly and adapting to change.
• Must be detail-oriented, be able to work independently and sometimes with limited information.
• Proactively communicate status, issues, and support needs to appropriate manager(s).
• Organized and goal-focused, ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Minimum of 5 years of knowledge and experience with Telecom Access Products specifically GPON/NGPON/XGS-PON technologies would be a plus.
• Networking protocols and technology experience is required related to Layer2/3 Ethernet networks.
• Experience testing user interfaces including, but not limited to, SNMP, Netconf.
• Experience with data communications or telecommunications product testing in one or more of the following areas: Experience with packet capture tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, iperf, wireline simulators, traffic generators and other networking test and evaluation tools.
• Experience with end-to-end testing of OLT-ONU(OMCI) interaction and troubleshooting.
• Excellent general troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to articulate problems in detail.
• Excellent verbal/written English communication skills while working with local/remote teams.
• Hands-on experience with performance test methods and tools, e.g., Spirent, IXIA, Abacus/Ameritec Bulk Call Generators, Ookla Speed Test, Iperf, is good to have.

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model - work from Bangalore office for 20 days in a quarter