Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nexthop AI builds foundational technologies for next-generation AI infrastructure, combining hardware and software expertise across silicon, systems, networking, and cloud development. The Test Engineer will test products and solutions, build and maintain test automation and testbeds, qualify software releases, and collaborate with engineering teams to reproduce and prevent networking-related faults.
Responsibilities
- Testing of products and solutions - the testing can span platform testing, functional testing, feature testing, solution testing and regression testing
- Manual testing as well as building and enhancing test automation with scripting
- Design and maintain testbeds, qualify software releases and deliver on quality metrics
- Collaborate with POC eng for any customer specific testing efforts during POCs as needed
- Collaborate with and help Eng teams (SW, HW, Support) in reproducing faults, as needed and regularly update test scripts to prevent recurrence of bugs
Skills
- Exceptional problem-solving skills
- A strong aptitude for taking initiative and learning
- Customer empathy
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience in test, QA, solutions testing roles
- Hands-on testing experience
- Proficient in networking technologies software, network protocols, network designs and deployments with hands-on experience across diverse Network Operating Systems (NOS) such as IOS, IOS-XR, EOS, and Junos
- Proficient in working with well-known Traffic Generators and network test hardware and software solutions
- Proven ability to write good test plans and effectively debug and troubleshoot complex networking issues (hardware and software)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) or any Open source OS
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python), programming languages (C, C+), automation tools (e.g. Ansible), AI development tools (e.g. Gemini, Co-pilot, Augment; etc)
- Familiarity with container technologies (e.g., Docker) and databases (e.g., SQL, NoSQL)
Benefits
- Full-time employment
- Remote work arrangement
- Opportunity to collaborate and learn from top-tier engineers
- Work on mission-critical projects
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