Software Quality Assurance Engineer - New Grad
Ciena
fulltime
Engineering and Information Technology
0+ years
As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.
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 is seeking New Graduate 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.
As a QA Software Engineer you will be creating and running tests to find defects in a feature. You will review feature design documents, create a testplan, execute tests, raising any bugs you find and work with development engineers to fix that bug. Test Automation is a significant part of the role and you will automate all tests in python to allow continual automated regression tests of images.
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.
QA Roles And Responsibilities
Knowledge and Experience
Skills
Attitude
Additional Information 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, including bring-ups on new emerging prototype hardware. You must be currently based in the UK and hold a valid permanent work permit for the country
Location The team are located in the heart of Edinburgh, just a few minutes’ walk from Haymarket station.
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