Cisco
Senior QA Automation Engineer - Networking L2/L3
Cisco, Milpitas, California, United States, 95035
Job Title
Senior QA Automation Engineer – Networking L2/L3
Company Cisco
Team The Customer Validation Testing (CVT) team is at the forefront of developing solutions that power the largest networks in the world. Engineers on this team will collaborate with dedicated, dynamic, hardworking team members to work on the qualification and automation of influential technologies, XR platforms, and solutions for deployment in high-end Cisco Web and Service Provider customers, impacting an endless number of users worldwide. The team operates from centers in the US, Canada, and India.
Your Impact As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS-XR for platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000.
Crafting, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS XR platforms. This includes generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer demands, maximizing the right technical expertise and skills in each area.
Designing and developing innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment, as well as developing web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to thoughtfully display and analyze execution results.
Driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes.
Proactively seek continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning.
Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team, generate test execution.
Collaborating with the development team, account team, and customers to understand and validate customer use cases.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience
3+ years of programming experience with Python
Networking domain experience working with L2 or L3 networking protocols such as ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP, LDP, Segment routing, L2VPN, L3VPN, EVPN.
Experience in networking automation or software quality assurance
Preferred Qualifications
Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools
Industry certification such as CCIE/CCNP/Cisco DevNet will be a plus.
Experience with network automation frameworks like pyATS, Pytest Ansible & Robot
Experience with network monitoring tools like Grafana, telegraf, Elasticsearch and InfluxDB
Experience in working with traffic generators like Ixia and Spirent.
Experience in network programmability - gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, YANG, REST APIs, RPC
Strong Linux experience, with preferred knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies - KVM, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Experience with AI and machine learning is a plus
Understanding and hands on Cisco IOS/IOS-XR platforms
About Cisco At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.
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Company Cisco
Team The Customer Validation Testing (CVT) team is at the forefront of developing solutions that power the largest networks in the world. Engineers on this team will collaborate with dedicated, dynamic, hardworking team members to work on the qualification and automation of influential technologies, XR platforms, and solutions for deployment in high-end Cisco Web and Service Provider customers, impacting an endless number of users worldwide. The team operates from centers in the US, Canada, and India.
Your Impact As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS-XR for platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000.
Crafting, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS XR platforms. This includes generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer demands, maximizing the right technical expertise and skills in each area.
Designing and developing innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment, as well as developing web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to thoughtfully display and analyze execution results.
Driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes.
Proactively seek continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning.
Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team, generate test execution.
Collaborating with the development team, account team, and customers to understand and validate customer use cases.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience
3+ years of programming experience with Python
Networking domain experience working with L2 or L3 networking protocols such as ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP, LDP, Segment routing, L2VPN, L3VPN, EVPN.
Experience in networking automation or software quality assurance
Preferred Qualifications
Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools
Industry certification such as CCIE/CCNP/Cisco DevNet will be a plus.
Experience with network automation frameworks like pyATS, Pytest Ansible & Robot
Experience with network monitoring tools like Grafana, telegraf, Elasticsearch and InfluxDB
Experience in working with traffic generators like Ixia and Spirent.
Experience in network programmability - gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, YANG, REST APIs, RPC
Strong Linux experience, with preferred knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies - KVM, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Experience with AI and machine learning is a plus
Understanding and hands on Cisco IOS/IOS-XR platforms
About Cisco At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.
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