System Test Engineer Intern

Arista Networks · Software Engineering

Hours: Intern
Where: Santa Clara, CA
Posted: Feb 25

Who You’ll Work With

Arista Networks is looking for world-class Software Test Engineers (aka System Test engineers) to help us in building the highest quality networking products for the AGNI team.

Arista Guardian for Network Identity (AGNI) is Arista’s network identity and access management solution. It provides secure authentication, authorization, and visibility for users, devices, and applications accessing the network. AGNI uses a cloud-native, microservices-based architecture and leverages ML/AI to simplify operations, support zero-trust security, and scale with modern enterprise networks.

What you'd do

Work with the developers in your team in creating their plans for automated tests to complement the exploratory testing that you perform.
Participate in functional specification and software design reviews held by your team and provide customer centric input.
Work in a highly productive environment along with the best of the engineers on the Linux platform that cuts a typical development cycle by order of magnitude with a laser focus towards quality.
Use every means possible to find the bugs in the software and/or hardware being developed by your team.
Write test plans to validate Arista features and products.
Design test network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of features and products.
Execute test plans to verify all aspects of the product. Identify defects and validate resolution.
Work as an agile member of a combined development and test team, running in short cycles to develop functional software in quick iterations.

What they want

BS CS/CE/EE plus 1+ years of experience. MS degree preferred
Experience in creating test methodologies and writing test plans or System Software skills.
Strong knowledge in the following areas: 802.1X, RADIUS, TACACS+, AAA, NAC, VLANs, IP Routing, TCP/IP, L2-L3 protocols.
Experience in configuring wired switches and/or wireless access points of different vendors for network access use-cases.
Familiarity with Identity Providers like Okta, Microsoft Active Directory, OneLogin are desirable.
Desirable to have experience in testing cloud-native SaaS applications ● Experience with working on other AAA or NAC products like ISE and ClearPass are desirable.
Good working knowledge of structured programming languages such as Python, Go, C, C++ etc. desirable
The intern base pay for this role is $80,000 to $85,000 / year.
Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market.
The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location.

About Arista Networks · Software Engineering

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world.