Broadcom Senior Software Quality Engineer 

United States, California 

924430464

Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• You’ll oversee the end-to-end testing of one or more significant subsystems in the next-generation NSX network virtualization product.
• You will be expected to coordinate with the test team and across the development, product management, SRE, and systems engineers to ensure a feature is tested from the functional, scale, system, and performance perspectives.
• You will be given broad problem sets and trusted to implement well-engineered solutions via automation-driven methodologies.
• Design complex distributed architectures, influence them to be adopted by a peer group, and then work with management to implement them.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing regularly?

• Write high-quality test code to execute complex tests on a distributed system.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Apply innovative testing to further improve the quality of software-defined networking security feature(s).
• Mentor and guide team members.
• Be a strong advocate of software quality.
• Meet customers to understand production deployments.
• Work across teams with Product Management, Support engineers, and across the Dev and QE organizations.
• Implement code to streamline automation and reduce cycle times.
• Track test deliverables to the product release schedule.

Who you are:

• You will be driven and passionate about understanding customer needs and crafting high-quality test solutions to meet those needs.

• You are a self-starter – you thrive in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• You have strong collaboration skills with a "Team First" mentality.
• You have technical engineering excellence and innovation in everything you do.
• You have a "Growth" mindset in tackling problems and creating great solutions.
• You have a Bachelor’s/master’s in computer science or a related degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors in computer science & engineering and 8+ years related experience or Masters in Computer Science & Engineering and 6+ years related experience
• 2+ Years of Virtualization experience -Installation/Configuration/Administration.Good understanding of IO subsystems and virtualization. (vSphere)
• 4+ years of Python, Go, Scala, or equivalent.
• Operating Systems: Deep Linux knowledge along withInstallation/Configuration/Administration(RHEL and Ubuntu a plus)
• Deep interest in Internet technology and security concepts, emphasizing firewall architectures andimplementation.Technologies include Ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, L7, and others.
• Knowledge of using commercial test tools such as Spirent Avalanche, IX Load, or Breaking Point is desirable.
• Develop and design effective test automation and contribute to CI/CD.
• Solid knowledge of OOP concepts, object/data modeling, and data structures.
• Hands-on experience testing networks and other security products
• Be able to build and maintain complex networking testbeds
• Excellent problem-solving,debugging/troubleshootingskills
• Excellent QA skills employing test frameworks, commercial test sets, home-grown tools, automated testing
• Networkingtroubleshooting/debugging- e.g., tcpdump, wire shark, traceroute, route, netstat.
• SCM: git, gerrit, Perforce, SVN

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $119,000 - $190,000

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.