Automation Engineer

Datacenter Product Introductions Contractor

Payrate: $70.00 - $75.00/hr summary:
The Datacenter Product Introductions team seeks to enhance its test automation and CI/CD coverage to support new product introductions (NPIs). We are hiring contractors to expand test and automation for solutions involving BGP, Open/R, Fabrics, Switches, and Optics. Responsibilities:

• Test and automate end-to-end network test cases (control-plane, data-plane, performance, stress/soak) using the in-house test framework.
• Build and run traffic-generation tests with Ixia/Keysight in lab environments.
• Convert qualification test plans into automated, repeatable suites and onboard them as CI/CD conveyor nodes that gate releases.
• Triage test failures for flakiness vs. legitimate regressions; file and track issues to the appropriate on-call personnel.
• Maintain and improve existing automation, test configurations, and lab tooling.
• Collaborate with Netcastle (lab infrastructure), Routing, and FBOSS XFN partners to unblock coverage.

Qualifications:

• 3 years in software/network test automation or QA engineering.
• Strong Python skills (test frameworks, scripting, debugging).
• Hands-on networking fundamentals: BGP, routing/forwarding, L2/L3, data-plane vs. control-plane concepts.
• Experience with traffic generators (Ixia, Keysight, or equivalent).
• CI/CD pipeline experience and comfort working in a Linux environment with source control.
• Bachelor of Science or in network engineering.

Desired

Skills:

• Exposure to Open/R, BGP, ECMP/UCMP, or large-scale DC fabric topologies.
• Experience qualifying network hardware/optics or vendor NOS (e.g., Arista EOS).
• Familiarity with lab automation, device provisioning, or scale/performance testing.
• 5-8 years in software/network test automation or QA engineering.

Pay Transparency:
The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $70.00 - $75.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience.

Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus.

Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.

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