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Intern Role Summary

Summary
Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one – your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies.
Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL. Ciena's existing Packet Products portfolio comprises of a broad family of products for access and aggregation tiers of the network.

Your role

Ciena's Edinburgh Routing & Switching Portfolio/IP are seeking early in career Software QA Engineers to complete a placement in our engineering team and help drive the testing and development of the Service Aware Operating System (SAOS), in order to support our customers in developing and deploying their virtualized networks. RSP QA is a Quality Assurance Test Team focusing on the quality of new SW feature development for our IP Switching platforms. This includes both manual and automation testing.

You will have the opportunity to learn from expert colleagues and mentors on your path to continuous learning while developing skills in technologies such as system & network virtualization (Containers, SDN, NFV), sophisticated routing, BGP, Segment Routing, EVPN, LDP, MPLS, Fast switchover, Ethernet services, Passive Optical Networks (PON), Synchronization & Timing Solutions, and more.

QA Key Competencies

Knowledge and Experience

• Undergoing MCA or M. Tech. or B. Tech. in Computer Science or IT or Electronics and Communication or similar.
• Experience writing tests in Python, or similar dynamic languages
• Knowledge and demonstrated usage of Linux OS (ideally Debian), containers and Kubernetes desirable
• Experience with automated test frameworks such as Jenkins and Robot framework would be an advantage
• Any knowledge of Atlassian toolset (Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira)
• Knowledge of network routers/switches or routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, etc.) and services (DHCP, DNS, etc)
• Independent self-starter and capable of effectively managing priorities to achieve business objectives
• Comfortable in a team environment while still taking accountability and working independently as needed
• An understanding of all stages of a Software development lifecycle
• Networking hardware setup and triage
• Experience of cloud networks or network virtualization
• Open Source project contribution

Skills

• Ability to analyse and critique software functionality
• Problem solving
• Can describe visible symptoms of a problem, and propose alternative ways to approach the diagnosis of the underlying issue.
• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills
• Excellent organization skills to manage time, resources, and priorities

Attitude

• Tenacious
• Collaborative
• Able to articulate problems found
• Able to work effectively in small teams and individually
• Inquisitive & conscientious at investigating problems

Additional info

We can offer you an unparalleled opportunity to gain in-depth networking knowledge, working alongside a diverse and industry leading team of network engineers, building components to support customer network services and our own network infrastructure. As a new hire, you will have an assigned Mentor and access to excellent opportunities to build your knowledge, skills and experience and progress forward within the team.

Location

The team are located in the heart of Edinburgh, just a few minutes’ walk from Haymarket station.

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.

Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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