Chennai, India
Senior/Staff SW QA Engineer - Performance & Scale - - 10422 - 10419
Extreme Networks · Chennai · India
Posted: 9/9/2026 · Last checked: 11/10/2026
Job description
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Position: Software QA Engineer
Experience: 5 to 12 years
Location: Chennai
Job Description:
. Excellent QA experience in most of the following areas:
· Experience in testing cloud-based applications.
· Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
· Experience and understanding of Kubernetes, Docker and Clustering solutions.
· Experience in creating end-to-end test strategy and test planning.
· Plan, Develop, Execute and Automate Test suites for our Cloud based Networking applications and Services
· Perform functional, integration, performance and scale, load validations
· Work closely with Product Owners, Development, CloudOps and other teams on the above
· Review customer deployments and customer found issues and address any gaps in the test coverage
· Automation of features from an end-to-end perspective - API and GUI.
· Review automation code written by other team members, give feedback.
· API Testing (Functional, Security aspects and Scale/Performance) (REST preferred)
· Hands-on programming using Java, Python, ROBOT, Perl, Go or TCL/TK.
· Experience in testing wired Networking protocols like VLAN, IP, STP, TCP, UDP, VRRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, SPBM etc.
· Experience in testing Enterprise Wireless and Wired networks.
· Experience in security concepts and protocols such as AAA framework, 802.1X, Captive portal, VPN, Firewalls, SSL etc.
· UI test automation experience using selenium or playwright.
· Knowledge of Virtualization and Hypervisor (ESX, Hyper-V).
· Experience using network testing tools like Wireshark, Ethereal or Jmeter.
· Proficiency in Linux/Unix OS.
· Experience or exposure to AI, Machine Learning and related tools.
· Good Analytical and Communication Skills
· Expected Skill Sets/Requirements:
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
· 3 to 12 years of Experience in Network Management/Orchestration domain
· Good debugging skills in a Microservices oriented architecture based product
· A detailed understanding of cloud technologies ,containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
· Hands on experience with Performance Testing - Experience with Performance Testing & Monitoring using tools such as Jmeter, Locust etc.,
· Expert in API Testing: API Contract Testing using Mocks, API Automation etc.,. Knowledge on relevant widely used Tools for the same.
· UI Automation using Selenium, Robot framework and Python
· Applied experience with version control systems such as Git, Github
· Comfortable with SQL/NoSQL/In-memory databases such as PostgreSQL/Redis/Ignite
· Knowledge on monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus
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