Senior Test Engineer L2/L3 Protocols
- Hewlett Packard
- 7 - 10 years
- Bengaluru
- 10 days ago
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Job Description
Senior Test Engineer L2/L3 Protocols
Job Description:
What You will do :
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, execute, and automate detailed feature and system-level test plans for L2/L3 protocols including STP/RSTP/MSTP, VRRP, MC-LAG, LACP, L2PT, LLDP, VPLS, EVPN, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, MACsec, and CoS/QoS features.
- Validate Class of Service (CoS) / Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities including traffic classification, marking, policing, shaping, queuing, scheduling, and congestion management.
- Design and execute scale, stress, and performance test scenarios to validate feature stability and platform limits under large-scale deployments.
- Perform system-level validation covering high scale scenarios such as large MAC tables, routing tables, EVPN/VXLAN scale, and high interface density.
- Validate control plane and data plane performance, including protocol convergence, throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, and traffic prioritization.
- Develop and maintain automation frameworks and test suites using Python and Robot Framework to improve regression efficiency and coverage.
- Analyze complex issues, perform deep troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and collaborate with development teams for resolution.
- Execute regression, interoperability, resiliency, and performance testing across multiple networking platforms.
- Track, document, and report test results, defects, performance metrics, and scale benchmarks.
- Handle critical customer escalations and complex field issues, reproducing and validating them in lab environments.
What you will bring :
- Strong expertise in Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking protocols.
- Hands-on experience with CoS/QoS technologies and traffic management mechanisms.
- Proven experience in scale, stress, resiliency, and performance testing of networking platforms.
- Strong automation and scripting skills in Python, with experience in Robot Framework or similar frameworks.
- Ability to analyze large-scale system behavior, traffic patterns, and protocol interactions.
- Collaborative team player with the ability to manage multiple testing activities simultaneously.
- Technical Expertise
- Networking Fundamentals
- Strong understanding of switching, routing, and IP networking architectures.
- Experience with datacenter and service provider networking environments.
- Layer 2 Technologies
- STP/RSTP/MSTP, MC-LAG, LACP, LLDP, L2PT, VLAN, VPLS, EVPN, MACsec
- Layer 3 Technologies
- OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS
- CoS / QoS Technologies
- Experience with traffic classification, scheduling, and congestion management, including:
- Traffic classification and marking (CoS, DSCP, EXP)
- Traffic policing and shaping
- Queue management and scheduling (Strict Priority, WRR, WRED, etc.)
- Traffic prioritization and congestion avoidance
- Hierarchical QoS (HQoS) and traffic engineering
- Control-plane and data-plane QoS validation
- Scale & Performance Validation
- Experience validating networking platforms at large scale, including:
- Large MAC table scale
- Large routing table
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Hardware & NetworksRole Category: IT NetworkRole: System Administrator / EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Hewlett PackardLocation(s): Bengaluru+ View Contact
Keyskills: TCP Data analysis Claims IPV6 Analytical Data collection Scheduling Troubleshooting MPLS STP
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