Senior Validation Engineer

Family Description

Applied R&D (AR) consists of target-oriented research either with the goal of solving a particular problem / answering a specific question or for multi-discipline design, development, and implementation of hardware, software, and systems including maintenance support. Supplies techno-economic consulting to clients. AR work is characterised by its detailed and complex nature in order to systematically combine existing knowledge and practices to further developing and incrementally improving products, operational processes, and customer-specific feature development.

Subfamily Description

Integration, Verification & Testing (IVT) comprises the integration of SW and / or HW or system components into system, platform, product releases, or networks and verifies the integrated entity or network against particular requirements and specifications. Covers setup and maintenance of laboratory and associated equipment, tools, and devices.

• Defining a test strategy and test cases, and executing these tests to validate features for new software releases of the 1830 Photonic Service Switch in the Optical Transponder domain:
  
  
  
  • Review feature proposal, high level and detail level requirements which are created by system architects, identify an economical way to replicate the feature in test setups and draft required test cases to cover the field application and stress/robustness testcases.
  • Compose test plans for the feature 1rst pass in test tracking tool
  • Once hardware and software deliveries are available, integrate the feature into the planned-out test beds and execute the test plans and track results
  • Create a comprehensive test plan to regression test this new feature to be executed for future releases of the product
  • Execute regression test plans for features introduced in earlier releases of the product.
  
  
• Performing detailed analyses and diagnoses of test results, identifying, and isolating failures and their root causes:
  
  
  
  • Since the product consists of various interacting subsystems and often include new hardware, failures in test results are common during the alpha phase of a release.
  • Analysis of the failures needs to be done by the testers to identify the point of error and to involve the proper developer (SW domain owner, HW owner, Infrastructure owner)
  • This involves active troubleshooting, logfile analysis and debugging techniques.
  • Content and depth of investigation must be comprehensive to allow routing of the defect to the appropriate HW or SW developer.
  • Submitting completed and correct bug reports and validating bug fixes, a proper and comprehensive bug report must be filed in the change management tool.
  
  
• Working on 1830 Photonic Service products and technologies, optical transmission, and WDM optics (verification of transponder aspects):
  
  
  
  • All above duties are in the photonic transponder domain of the product: - validating product features including but not limited to Protections switching, Performance Monitoring, Fault management.
  
  
• Analyzing field reports from customers:
  
  
  
  • Field reports for SW bugs need to be analyzed, reproduced and workarounds to be identified. Once the corresponding SW fixes are available these need to be retested.
  • Updating test cases and automation steps to cover this test escape and validate the fixes.
  
  
• Identifying, planning, installing, and commissioning and integrating test benches to the lab environment:
  
  
  
  • As part of new features, we have very often new hardware subsystems (i.e. new transponders) which require a new testbed or an extension of existing testbeds. Some testcases require physical reconfiguration of the testbeds.
  • This involves mechanical installation, electrical cabling and optical fibering of the product and the associated test gear (spectrum analyzers, OTN and Ethernet test sets, variable optical attenuators)
  
  
• Designing and programming test-automation framework functionality:
  
  
  
  • We are aiming for a 100% regression test coverage through test automation.
  • An extensive SW framework was developed to manage the product and the associated test gear.
  • Area specific test automation framework code libraries were developed modelling the Transponder subsystem to allow testing across multiple network elements (i.e. different protections schemes, fault monitoring, performance monitoring, attenuators,).
  • These libraries need to be enhanced to cover new features and functionality - so new software needs to be developed and existing code needs to be extended/re-factored.
  
  
• Identifying, planning, and programming test automation testcases:
  
  
  
  • Maintaining and updating automated test cases and their configuration data
  • Coding of new testcases using test automation library functionality
  • transform existing manual test plans into automated testcases and aggregate these into autonomous regression batches containing thousands of testcases.
  • Overall: 25% of the time
  • 3 years experience in test automation or software development
  
  
• Interacting with system engineers, hardware development, software development, and field support teams in multi-site, global development teams:
  
  
  
  • This is work environment, so orthogonal to duties, so during total on the job time.
  
  

Impact

Impact is short-term and usually departmental/project in scope. Accountable for quality, accuracy and efficiency of own and/or team achievements. Actions and errors can have program, project, functional impact.

Scope & Contribution

Individual Contributor: Performs and/or coordinates day-to-day activities to meet departmental/project objectives. Carries out root/cause analysis in more complex problems. Can develop and implement recommendations. Managerial/Supervisory: Direct supervisory responsibilities for people. Typically first level (and lowest level) of solid line management. Carries out variety of complex activities according to plan within broader area of responsibility, analyses problems. Decision-making typically according to established solutions.

Innovation

Accepts responsibility for and demonstrates support for delegated decisions. Requires minimum supervision. Uses non standard approaches to resolving issues. Suggests improvements and seeks opportunities for innovation. Demonstrates initiative & adaptability to changing business environments. Is willing to take on new roles or jobs appropriate to skill set in different environments and/or locations.

Communication

Works to influence others to accept job function's view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches. Requires ability to communicate with functional leadership regarding team & technical matters. May conduct briefings with senior leaders within the job function. May at times be required to negotiate regarding operational issues.Has cross-cultural knowledge and global mindset

Knowledge & Experience

Management experience / Achieved advanced skills and knowledge within a specific professional discipline involving the integration of theory and principles with organisational practices and precedents. Typically requires 4-6 years relevant experience and/or a graduate equivalent (or higher) degree.

The position of System Verification Tester requires theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge gained through the attainment of at least a Bachelor's degree in a field related to the specialty occupation, such as Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, or in a closely related or equivalent field.

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• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D - Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program