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Title: Lab Test Automation Engineer Duration: 12 Months Location: Las Vegas, NV Work Type: Onsite Role Overview We are seeking a hands-on Lab Test Automation Engineer to build and maintain the hardware validation test suite used at a network hardware staging/warehouse facility. You will design scripted, repeatable test flows that warehouse technicians can execute with minimal engineering support, and progressively automate them as lab infrastructure matures. Engagement: Dedicated, multi-quarter duration. Location / model: On-site presence at a warehouse/partner facility, operating within a constrained-network environment (escort requirements may apply). Key Responsibilities ● Build a scripted test harness that technicians can run from a laptop or console server against a rack, with a low skill floor and deterministic pass/fail output. ● Automate the Rack Level Test (RLT) flow: BOM verification, port mapping, PRBS, insertion loss, and snake test. ● Develop per-platform script variants across a multi-vendor network device matrix. ● Define a structured, machine-readable results schema (e.g., JSON) capturing pass/fail, measured values, device serials, and operator/timestamp metadata. ● Implement results export to cloud object storage without assuming interactive corporate-network connectivity. ● Produce technician-facing SOPs, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides. ● Normalize and document test cases so the suite is portable across sites — repeatability is a hard requirement. ● Deploy and configure a standalone Linux-based factory-validation server (PXE-boot provisioning, dual-NIC isolated device-under-test and management segments). ● Migrate the test suite into a PXE-driven workflow for parallel, at-scale execution. ● Automate management-path access (tunnel / VPN / jump-host patterns). ● Build results telemetry, logging, and a metrics pipeline. ● Perform capacity/throughput engineering and queueing design for large-scale rack validation. ● Support lab network onboarding requirements as the connectivity model is finalized. ● Maintain source in company repositories, participate in code review, and support knowledge transfer. Required Skills ● Scripting/automation: Strong Python; test-framework experience (e.g., pytest); network-automation libraries (Netmiko / Scrapli / Nornir / Ansible). ● Network operating systems: Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise/data-center network operating system, familiarity with open or white-box network OSes and vendor diagnostic OSes strongly preferred. ● Console/serial automation: Serial and console-server-driven workflows; out-of-band access patterns. ● Linux/provisioning: Linux (CentOS) administration; PXE / DHCP / TFTP boot-provisioning chains. ● Physical layer & optics: Practical understanding of PRBS, insertion loss, port mapping, breakout, DAC/AOC, and transceiver types. ● Network fundamentals: L1/L2/L3, data-center fabric topology, structured cabling, LLDP. ● Documentation: Ability to write SOPs consumable by non-engineer technicians. ● Working model: Comfortable in a warehouse/partner environment with constrained network access. Deliverables ● Technician-executable test suite covering the full RLT flow, per platform. ● Structured results schema and artifact-export pipeline. ● Technician SOP, runbook, and troubleshooting guide. ● Portability documentation for redeploying the suite at other sites. ● Deployed and integrated factory-validation environment with management-path automation and results telemetry. ● Throughput/capacity model for large-scale rack validation."
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