Network Test Engineer – Bigleaf Networks

10% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 15% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $27.4M Venture Funding

What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?

Bigleaf Networks is currently building a dedicated QA team as we evolve and enter a period of growth. The ideal person for this role will also be extremely passionate about both testing and networking hardware. Do you take pleasure in finding hidden issues in systems? Do you love networking? Do you have significant experience working with networking protocols, test hardware, and network labs? The ideal person for this role will answer “yes!” to all of these questions. If this describes you, please read on, and apply!

What You’ll Do: 

As a Network Test Engineer at Bigleaf, you will provide value to our customers by working closely with Support and firmware development teams to track reliability and performance across all of our hardware (customer-facing and internal network). You will develop and execute test plans (with a focus on automation) to increase our QoS and customer satisfaction.

You will approach your role as a tester and engineer with an exceptional ability to identify, articulate, and prioritize issues within our products and workflows. You will also focus on establishing critical QA processes and ensuring quality is top-of-mind. We are looking for someone who can think creatively to consistently surface issues (before they reach customers) and assist with building scalable processes to validate and debug complicated network behaviors.

Come join us at Bigleaf to help businesses connect to their customers, people like us, people like you!

All positions are 100% remote. Proximity to the Tigard, OR office is required in order to be close to the test lab.

Responsibilities: 

• Design, implement, and maintain hardware-based test environments that allow for rapid verification of our products in real-world scenarios
• Contribute to QA and test automation to quantify product performance, e.g., network load and throughput testing, performance comparisons of new hardware platforms, etc
• Work with Product and Engineering to review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to facilitate creation of test plans
• Work tirelessly to find issues in our systems (before they impact customers) and help others in engineering understand impact and reproduction. Record and track bugs; verify efforts to mitigate bugs
• Integrate regression tools into our release process to build confidence in every release and shorten the time to delivery
• Identify, troubleshoot, and document issues and work with appropriate engineering resources to solve customer-facing and internal issues
• Communicate effectively , engineering, and other internal stakeholders on overall testing and project status
• Contribute to design and maintenance of our test lab

Qualifications: 

• At least 4 years of experience working as a Network Engineer, Network Test Engineer, or related role
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, supporting multiple concurrent projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a multi-team, collaborative environment
• Experience using Spirent or Ixia network test hardware
• Experience with networking protocols (TCP/IP, IPv6, BGP, etc.)  and networking technologies (VPN’s, traffic engineering, etc.)
• Ability to effectively utilize Wireshark to read and understand network traffic
• Experience building test labs for functionality, performance, and scale
• Network and automation debugging experience
• Excellent understanding of security technologies such as NAT, VPN, firewalls, vulnerability tests, etc.
• Proven ability to automate performance and regression tests across various hardware platforms

Who We Are: 

Bigleaf Networks improves Cloud connectivity and Internet performance. We are a team of telecom and network software professionals who built our Cloud-first SD-WAN service based on the natural architecture of leaves. We provide a better Internet experience with simple implementation, friendly support, and powerful technology.

Bigleaf exists because of leaders and dreamers who believed there was a better solution to a technological need in business. As we continue to grow, we keep this leadership mentality in mind, and we encourage each other to constantly be improving by developing grit, servant leadership, diversity, and innovation.

Our Core Values:

Whether working with a customer or interacting with one another around the office, Bigleaf’s core values are heartfelt service, positive attitude, transparency, and focus. At our core, we are here at Bigleaf to develop technology that will help people, and these values help us maintain that intention.

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