Senior Software Quality Engineer

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Job Description:

Job Description:

The Elevator Pitch: Why would you enjoy this new opportunity?

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.

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 12+ years related experience or Masters in Computer Science & Engineering and 10+ 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 with Installation/Configuration/Administration