Principal Engineer, Hive O/S Systems Test

Aerohive Networks (HIVE) is the pioneer in controller-less Wi-Fi and cloud-enabled enterprise networking. Our solutions enable enterprises to leverage the power of mobility to increase productivity, engage customers and grow their business. Our proprietary mobility platform utilizes the cloud and a distributed, controller-less architecture to deliver unified, intelligent, simplified networks that can be cost-effectively deployed.

Aerohive Networks—the pioneer in controller-less Wi-Fi—reduces the cost and complexity of today's networks with cloud-enabled Wi-Fi and routing solutions for medium and large enterprise headquarters, branch offices and teleworkers. Aerohive’s award-winning cooperative control Wi-Fi architecture, public or private cloud-enabled network management, routing and VPN solutions eliminate costly controllers and single points of failure. This gives its customers mission critical reliability with granular security, policy enforcement, and the ability to start small and expand without limitations. Aerohive Networks is the right place to be and now is the time to join us and be part of our spectacular growth and success. We're looking for the best and the brightest 'A' players who want to make a difference doing a job they love. Aerohive offers attractive compensation and excellent benefits. We even have a Fun Committee that supports various community causes. In this Principal Engineer Systems Test role, you will extract and immerse yourself with Aerohive customer requirements & product solutions, form knowledge and opinions about system level test coverage, write and review system test plans & coverage, and provide technical training or knowledge sharing to increase the global QA team’s capability in generating and executing optimized system test coverage.

* Interact with peer groups (e.g. SE, TME, Support, PLM) and customers where applicable to understand customer use cases & pain points. Derive and communicate the necessary test coverage at the solution/customer/system testing levels. * Lead the reviews and improvements of the new and existing QA test plans and test coverage from the QA team with an aim to maximize the technical width and depth of the system level test coverage. Initial focus will be on the Wi-Fi products and will expand to cloud management platform & applications. * Lead the QA team to continue to enhance test automation for the system test scenarios and coverage, using the chosen Robot Framework and Python scripting language. * Lead and introduce best practices in system test to the QA organization. The best practices may include introduction of improved test process and/or effective system test tools. * Lead the QA team to do postmortem analysis and actions from the CFDs (Customer Found Defects) to improve QA system test coverage and to increase QA technical capability. * Participate in project reviews and provide assessment of the major product issues and quality. His/her assessment may be a gauge to gate release criteria or defect fixes. * Provide technical training & knowledge sharing about system testing to the global QA team. * Work with engineering management to assist planning and implementation of agreed and applicable continuous improvements in system testing.

* 7+ years’ hands-on experiences performing system-wide QA testing in the networking industry, * 5+ years’ experiences in leading and training QA team in the excellence of system test planning and system test coverage, * Outstanding technical & hands-on expertise in system testing execution, system test planning, and customer issues trouble-shooting & resolution. * Past experiences of Wi-Fi & AP system level testing is strongly desired. IP layer 2 & 3 networking, and cloud-based NMS system level testing will be beneficial. * Experiences & capability in test automation, particularly Python programming. * Solid understanding & experience of Agile development process, * Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, * Travel requirement: once per quarter to Hangzhou office in China. * Minimum Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferred. * Experience in test tools and utilities such as Ixia, IxVeriwave, Spirent, IxChariot, Wireshark/Ethereal, Omnipeak is preferred. * Good system administration knowledge of Linux/Windows based operating systems.