Software Test Engineer (SONIC)

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $8 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience.  Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Who You’ll Work With

You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, working side by side to ensure robust and high-quality product releases. You’ll engage with field-facing teams to understand customer deployments and feedback, representing customer use-cases directly to engineering teams. As a test expert, you’ll also work with networking experts to validate platform integration, scalability, and performance. Additionally, you will interact with product managers and technical documentation teams to align testing efforts with real-world application and market needs.

What You’ll Do

• Use every means possible to find the bugs in the software and/or hardware being developed by your team.
• Write test plans to validate Arista features and products.
• Design test network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of features and products.
• Execute test plans to verify all aspects of the product. Identify defects and validate resolution.
• Work as an agile member of a combined development and test team, running in short cycles to develop functional software in quick iterations.
• Work with the developers in creating their plans for automated tests to complement the exploratory testing that you perform. Be the testing expert for your team.
• Participate in functional specification and software design reviews held by the development team and provide customer centric input.

• BS CS/CE/EE plus 3+ years of experience in networking. MS degree preferred
• A minimum of one year of hands-on experience testing SONiC is a must (manual testing experience strongly desired).
• Strong working knowledge of SONiC architecture - SAI, FRR open routing stack (formerly Quagga, Zebra), Redis-DB, docker and minigraph
• Hands on experience with Linux operating system and its associated technologies (e.g. Virtualization, Kubernetes & more)
• Strong knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, IGMP, PIM SM/ SSM, QoS, L2-L3 protocols, Platform validation, HA, QOS, network management.
• Knowledge of forwarding ASICs, FPGAs and network processors highly desired
• Proven expertise in creating test methodologies and writing test plans.
• Experience with IXIA and/or Spirent test tools desired
• Familiarity with test automation tools and scripting languages desired
• Strong communication skills.
• ACE/CCIE/JNCIE certifications are a plus.

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.