o Minimum of B.S./B.E./B.Tech in CS/EE/ECE/IT o 8+ years of relevant industry experience in Networking/Telecom- Embedded/Network Management with hands-on experience in functional, system test and automation o Proven technical knowledge and experience in testing Data Center Network topologies o Proven knowledge and hands-on experience in test plan development and validating scalable data center network and network security solutions o Experience in performance, scale and convergence testing and analyzing performance related issues and improving the performance and convergence at system level o Experience in planning and building large scaled system test topologies with detailed knowledge of test automation tools and software test tools (Spirent, IXIA) and virtualization platforms such as VMware (vCenter, NSX), OpenStack and Linux OS variants such as Ubuntu, CentOS, KVM o Hands-on experience in developing test automation suites using Python or similar scripting language o Experience in performance, scale and convergence testing and analyzing performance related issues and improving the performance and convergence at system level o Ability to develop and publish solution validation document and test reports o Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization: Product Management, Technical Marketing, Field Sales, Documentation and Development Team o Highly motivated and self-driven o Able to collaborate cross-functionally to meet challenging goals