DWDM QA Engineer

For over 20 years, Ekinops has been driving innovation in network systems. We provide solutions focused on the needs of communication service providers and enterprises worldwide.

We provide open, trusted, and innovative network connectivity and enable our customers’ success by delivering high value-added software-driven solutions. Today, over 120 international service providers, including numerous Tier 1 carriers around the world, trust our people and technologies.

Over 50% of our 550+ strong team works in our multi-national Agile R&D centers. Our company has a strong international background, with sales offices strategically located around the world.

Ekinops is also recognized for its ESG commitments with its rating in the EthiFinance ESG Ratings report and its Gold Medal awarded by EcoVadis.

Duties and Responsibilities:

As part of the DWDM Test team of 10 people, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Contribute to user-stories created by the product owner
• Write test cases and implement automated test cases
• Maintain the automatic test database
• Participate in test campaign based on automated test and manual test.
• Problem identification, report and management
• Discuss problem resolution with software and/or hardware developers
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Active participation to Scrum ceremonies
• Contribute to test and development methodology improvement
• Contribute to build our CI/CD platform

Profile and skills:

You are an autonomous, team player engineer with the following skills and experience:

General

• 5+ years as test engineer
• Fluent in both English and French (oral, written)
• Agile / Scrum methodology
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Technical knowledge

• Good knowledge of tests environments
• Robot framework, Python
• Gitlab
• Jira/Xray
• Good knowledge in continuous integration on GitLab CI
• Nice to have:
  1. Knowledge in test and measurement equipment's (Optical spectrum analyzer, BERT traffic generator)
  2. Basic knowledge of Linux
  3. Basic DWDM technology knowledge
  4. Netconf/Yang knowledge

Behavioral indicators

• Capacity to work in collaborative agile environment
• Self-motivated, with good analytical skills
• Capacity to drive issues root cause analysis with other stakeholders (hardware and software developers)
• Ability to work in an international environment

Recruitment process:

At Ekinops, we believe diversity makes us stronger! We hire talents based on skills, experience, and potential—nothing else. No matter your age, gender, background, or abilities, what matters to us is what you bring to the team. Join us and thrive in an inclusive, open-minded workplace where everyone has a voice!

3 interviews:

1st with the R&D Manager

2nd with the Senior Director Transport R&D

3rd with the Talent Acquisition Manager