As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

At Ciena, technology is used to help customers improve productivity, creativity, and connectivity through networking systems, services, and software. This internship provides hands-on experience validating Blue Planet solutions through software quality engineering, test automation, and AI-assisted testing practices. The role offers opportunities to collaborate across engineering teams and contribute to solutions with customer impact.

How you will make an impact:

• Analyze test results and prepare test reports.
• Investigate software defects, identify customer-impacting issues, and document defects using Jira.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, product line managers, and product owners to develop optimized test coverage.
• Develop and maintain automated test cases using automation best practices.
• Create end-to-end UI automation, REST API automation, and system test automation.
• Configure and troubleshoot networking and lab environments to support testing scenarios.
• Research and evaluate tools and approaches for test automation.

The must haves:

• Testing theory, terminology, testing types, and asynchronous automated testing.
• Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Cucumber, Webdriver.io.
• Backend testing: REST API testing automation tools.
• Container management: Kubernetes.
• Cloud environments: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
• Version control systems: Git, Bitbucket.
• Networking knowledge including IP addressing, subnets, VLANs, routing, switching, and protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, DNS); understanding of web application and microservice solution architecture; ability to learn complex technological concepts; written and interpersonal communication skills in English; ability to work independently and within a team.2

Nice to haves:

• Ticketing: Jira.
• Frontend programming/markup languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SVG.
• Backend programming languages: Java/J2EE, Python.
• Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts.
• Domain: Telecom, OSS.
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Neo4j, ClickHouse.
• Test Management: TestRail.
  

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard.  Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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