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The Opportunity:
Join a team focused on validating Ciena’s WaveLogic Optical Modem through test planning, execution, and automation. This role contributes to product quality by validating customer use cases and collaborating with product management, R&D, and customer-facing teams.
What you'd do
- Develop comprehensive test plans to validate customer use cases and product capabilities.
- Build test environments for execution while considering interactions across product features.
- Perform validation testing activities.
- Report defects and follow up on closure with the design team.
- Develop Python automation test cases to improve execution efficiency and augment existing automated test cases.
- Interact with customers, Product Line Management, and R&D teams.
- Participate in field activities related to product validation.
- Education: Actively enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Optical Communications
- Experience: Experience developing automation with Python.
- Knowledge of optical technology and photonics.
- Starts
- 2026-09-22