New Grad: Telecommunications Quality Automation Test Engineer
Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.
Why Ciena?
- We’re a company rooted in people—seeking to create a vibrant and inclusive environment, where everyone feels they can belong.
- Accelerate your career path by gaining hands-on experience and exposure to the latest technology. Our interns and graduates work on real projects in real time in world class labs. Be a part of tomorrow’s future – today.
- Mentoring. Networking. Leadership Opportunities. We recognize that the learning doesn’t stop when you leave school - we champion a team environment for development and provide the tools to achieve success.
- We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental & physical health, and financial security, of our employees and their families.
- We are big proponents of life-work integration. Our people make a big difference at Ciena, but we want to shine light on their differences outside of working hours too. CienaCares supports non-profit causes important to employees by matching employee financial contributions and dedicating time for volunteering.
How You Will Contribute:
As Telecommunications Quality Assurance Systems Engineer, you will help develop verification strategies in relation to customer and telecommunications/networking industry requirements insuring continued overall system quality delivered with every release.
- You will learn about the product development lifecycle process and understand the benefits of which engineering methodology best represents the company needs.
- You will build the essentials to develop effective test strategies and automation and build out system applications and solutions in a laboratory environment to establish a sound base upon which to grow evolving networking test strategies.
- You will test new features introduced with every system release and report test results to databases.
- You will perform regression system level tests to guarantee no degradation exists from release to release, including backwards compatibility test coverage.
- You will report bugs into databases to identify issues found through effective testing and help drive closure towards attaining compliance with customer expectations.
- You will maintain and help grow lab system environments to scale with the evolution of the product line.
What Does Ciena Expect of You?
- The ability to build trusted customer relationships quickly.
- A sense of urgency – what’s important to the customer is equally important to you. You make getting things done a priority.
- The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team.
- You embrace change – thriving in a diverse environment of ever-changing priorities and sometimes stressful situations.
- Curiosity to understand new technologies, analyze, troubleshoot and resolve customer concerns.
- A dedication to ongoing learning – not only related specifically to your role, but also other technical concerns that may impact your customers.
- Your self-motivated – always seeking out and methodically tackling sophisticated technical issues.
The Must Haves:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science coupled with a demonstrated ability to work with Linux based OS and automate test cases using Object Oriented Language, preferably Python or interface with JSON files and Mongo databases.
- Technical knowledge of PON systems.
- Familiarity with test automation tools and environments
- Experience working with various network interfaces to communicate with test equipment, such as, Serial, GPIB, USB and Ethernet.
- Proven debugging skills.
- Familiarity with test and network equipment command line languages such as vendor specific API & SCPI as well as with physical layer aspects of fiber optics.
- An understanding of customer and industry requirements stemming from Telecom Carriers and Cable Providers, as well as, Standards from IEEE, ITU-T, DOCSIS and Telcordia.
At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.
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