Senior SDET / QA, IP Fabric
Discovery Platform Team
Automated network assurance platform
Open for applications
Automated network assurance platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to network intelligence for network engineering, planning and operations teams managing existing large-scale enterprise and service provider networks.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in IT
- 5+ years as SDET / QA focused on backend services
- 3+ years working with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab required)
- 3+ years Linux & shell scripting
- Strong hands-on Docker experience
- Experience with virtualization (VMs) and containers
- Advanced-level Python
- Builds internal frameworks and tools
- Strong debugging capability
- Writes production-quality code
- Ability to code / understand existing code at solid level in TypeScript
- Comfortable working with backend services
- Writes and debugs Dockerfiles
- Understands container lifecycle
- Works with containerized test environments
- Understands difference between containers and VMs
- Comfortable working in Linux environments
- Writes Bash scripts
- Debugs system-level issues
- Works fluently in CLI
- Designed or significantly improved GitLab pipelines
- Understands pipeline performance vs coverage trade-offs
- Enforces quality gates
- Debugs flaky jobs and unstable builds
Desirable
- Networking
- Complex regular expressions
What the job involves
- As a Senior SDET / QA, you engineer quality into complex backend systems
- You build frameworks and testing tools, design realistic mocks, own CI/CD pipelines, work on data anonymization and ensure that what we ship behaves predictably under scale and imperfect data
- Not manual QA
- Not frontend testing (no Selenium, no Playwright)
- Not a DevOps-only role
- This is a senior backend-focused engineering role
- Framework & Tooling Engineering
- Design and build backend testing frameworks from scratch or significantly evolve existing ones
- Define QA strategy and design tests to simulate complex network setups
- Create tools for mocking complex network data and backend services
- Contribute to data anonymization tooling
- Ensure test reproducibility, scalability and reliability
- You are expected to be an expert in framework and test tooling creation, not just a test case writer
- CI/CD Ownership (GitLab Required)
- Own and evolve GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Improve pipeline performance and stability
- Enforce quality gates and reproducible builds
- Debug failing and flaky pipeline stages
- Maintain containerized test environments
- Hands-on pipeline ownership is mandatory
- Backend Quality Engineering
- Work with backend services written in TypeScript
- Build automation in Python (primary language)
- Design tests for asynchronous, event and API driven, and data-heavy systems
- Identify failure modes before they reach production
- Collaborate in design discussions to ensure testability and reliability
- Build robust backend testing frameworks
- Design realistic network mocks and simulators
- Improve CI/CD reliability and speed
- Reduce flaky tests at the root cause
- Increase release confidence
- Engineer quality into the platform as it scales
Our take
Network assurance has become critical in managing private network infrastructures. However, the growing complexities involved make it difficult for human operators to manage their networks efficiently. As a result, network automation without assurance becomes unpredictable, and organisations struggle to identify and address network vulnerabilities.
To address these challenges, IP Fabric has developed an automated network assurance platform. By leveraging IP Fabric, organisations can effectively navigate the intricacies of their networks, ensuring network automation is reliable and predictable. Furthermore, the platform helps improve network security by enabling organisations to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, minimising the risk of blind spots and potential security breaches.
With strong backing from various investors, IP Fabric is committed to strengthening and expanding its market position. Through these strategic investments and the company's strong focus on growth, IP Fabric is poised to make a significant impact in the field of network assurance.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
71% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2023
$27.3m
SERIES B
Sep 2020
$4.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33m
Company benefits
- 5 weeks of annual holiday and 5 sick days
- Full remote or hybrid role
- Opportunities to grow in a revolutionary, fast-paced company
- Collaboration with diverse, international teams
- A pet-friendly office at IP Pavlova
- Complementary snacks, coffee and refreshments
- Support from our leaders and continuous growth of your skills
- Freedom to use equipment of your choice
- Regular team and company events
Company HQ
Morningside Heights, New York, NY
Leadership
Pavel Bykov
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Verizon as a Lead Consulting Engineer/Principal Engineer. They also worked at ALEF as a Network Architect and Cisco Certified Systems Instructor.
Roman Aprias
(Co-Founder & CTO)Graduated from the Technical University of Ostrava with an Ing (equivalent to MSc) in Information and Communications Technology. Previously worked as a System Administrator/Programmer at the Center for Information Technology and as a Senior System Engineer at ALEF.
Miroslav Hýbl
(Co-Founder & Director of Engineering)Previously worked as an IS Administrator at Nobleslen and HORTIM.
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