About the position
Broadcom is a leading global company in infrastructure technology, data center networking, and security, with a history of over 60 years of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence. The company's origins can be traced back to the technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent, and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent. Broadcom focuses on developing technologies that connect our world. With its extensive size, scope, and engineering talent, the company is well-positioned to lead the industry into the future. This is achieved through the combined capabilities of industry leaders such as Broadcom, LSI, Brocade, CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise security business, and VMware. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quality Engineer in Broadcom's Application, Networking, and Software business unit. This unit is a leader in distributed and gateway security. The Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) product is a pioneer in distributed and gateway firewall security within ANS. The gateway firewall security product provides security and control when connecting to WANs. Join our close-knit, fast-paced team that operates in an agile environment to solve critical challenges for our internal and external customers. This involves anticipating and addressing customer problems before they occur by creating thorough end-to-end test cases. We use advanced automation to set up test environments and run test cases. Our expertise covers testing various Perimeter gateway security solutions for functionality, system scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the end-to-end testing of one or more significant subsystems in the next-generation NSX network virtualization product.
- 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.
- Implement well-engineered solutions via automation-driven methodologies.
- Design complex distributed architectures and influence their adoption by a peer group.
- 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.
- Advocate for 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's/master's in computer science or a related degree.
- 12+ years related experience with a Bachelor's in computer science & engineering or 10+ years with a Master's.
- 2+ years of virtualization experience - Installation/Configuration/Administration.
- 4+ years of experience in Python, Go, Scala, or equivalent.
- Deep Linux knowledge along with Installation/Configuration/Administration (RHEL and Ubuntu a plus).
- Deep interest in Internet technology and security concepts, emphasizing firewall architectures and implementation.
- Knowledge of using commercial test tools such as Spirent Avalanche, IX Load, or Breaking Point.
- Solid knowledge of OOP concepts, object/data modeling, and data structures.
- Hands-on experience testing networks and other security products.
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging/troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent QA skills employing test frameworks, commercial test sets, home-grown tools, automated testing.
- Networking troubleshooting/debugging skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with SCM tools: git, gerrit, Perforce, SVN.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision plans.
- 401(K) participation including company matching.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Company paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave and vacation time.
