Principal Engineer, System Verification

Based on-site in Horsham Pennsylvania or Ottowa Canada you will develop test strategies and automation for new and existing products establish verification best practices and work with customers to validate system features against their requirements.

What Youll Do

Test Strategy Verification and Automation 80%

• Review system requirements and develop comprehensive test plans covering functional performance and boundary scenarios.
• Create traceability matrices linking test cases to system requirements.
• Establish verification standards tools and best practices for the team.
• Validate optical provisioning alarms telemetry and software upgrades across NETCONF CLI and gRPC interfaces.
• Perform end-to-end black-box testing from SDN network controllers to network elements.
• Verify:
  • Network protocols including OSPF BGP and LLDP.
  • Optical systems including EDFA/Raman amplifiers OSC WSS OCM and OTDR.
  • OTN and high-speed transponder functionality.
• Develop and maintain Python-based test automation.
• Build CI/CD regression pipelines using Jenkins or GitLab.
• Run daily sanity regression and software/hardware upgrade testing.
• Maintain test repositories and produce release test-summary reports.
• Create tests for new customer requirements and retest bug fixes for legacy products.
• Support customer validation of new system features.

Technical Leadership and Collaboration 20%

• Mentor junior verification engineers.
• Lead automation-script reviews and promote consistent engineering practices.
• Collaborate with hardware software and system architecture teams to improve product performance and development processes.

About You

• Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Eight or more years of embedded software verification experience.
• At least five years of experience in the optical networking industry covering Layer 0 and/or Layer 1 equipment.
• Experience automating northbound interface testing using NETCONF/YANG RESTCONF CLI or SNMP.
• Strong Python scripting and Linux-based embedded system testing experience.
• Knowledge of network protocols including TCP/IP Ethernet OSPF BGP LLDP and RSTP.
• Experience with DWDM systems and technologies such as EDFA Raman amplifiers WSS OSC OCM and OTDR.
• Familiarity with OTN and 100G 400G and 800G transponder products.
• Experience with Agile development CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with third-party test equipment and system-level automation.
• Knowledge of networking data models including OpenConfig and YANG and relevant security protocols.
• Strong English communication skills and experience working with global teams.
• Ability to work independently manage competing priorities and deliver against demanding schedules.

Our ICARE Values

Everything we do is guided by our ICARE values:

• Integrity Create an environment of trust.
• Collaboration Innovate through the sharing of ideas.
• Accountability Own the process and the outcome.
• Respect Recognize the value in everyone.
• Enthusiasm Find a sense of purpose in work.