About Cisco:

At Cisco, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus onwhat'smost meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses.We'remaking IT and networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works!

About the team:

The Cisco MX QA team takes pride in ensuring the end-to-end system of the Cisco Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst product line is ready to use. The team works on, but is not limited to, testing customer use cases, integration testing, scalability testing,stressand longevity testing. This team is also responsible for qualifying security services such as malware detection, URL filtering, web security, IPS, threatmodeling, SD-WAN and SaaS/IaaS security capabilities all through a single Cisco Meraki Dashboard. Our products are used in over a millionnetworksand our customers rely on our products to serve tens of millions of people. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority.

About the Job:

Cisco is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test to join to supporttest qualification of our Dashboard that supports Cisco Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst product offerings. As a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test, your responsibility includes designing and building testbeds, creating and executing the integrated/application tests that resemble customer use-case for SD-WAN and Security solutions over physical, cloud, on-prem Cisco Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst products via Cisco Meraki Dashboard, and contributing to industry-leading technologies in the cloud ecosystem. As a part of a geographically distributed team, you will collaborate with multiple Cisco engineering teams and stakeholders around the globe to develop afully-furnishedtest strategy. To be successful in this role, you will need tohave motivation,curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and experience with telco technologies and automation as a breath.

In addition to driving test strategy, test planning and performing testing on large-scale networks you will providetechnicalleadershipto entire QAteam to drive and implementnew ideasto optimize and alleviate the team.

What You Will Be Doing

Develop a comprehensive understanding of the use cases/workflows of the MX solution deployed in the customer environment.
Participate in requirements/design discussions with Product managers & development team and represent the QA team.
Design a test strategy document for the Cisco MX features and collaborate with other QA and development teams to cover all aspects of the features being developed.
Execution of tests and reporting test results, and test metricspertaining tothese tests.
Develop automation scripts ahead of feature testing to enable CI/CD (i.eAutomation Driven Testing)
Evaluate and develop simple features whenrequiredwith Test Driven Development approach
Evaluate and provide a fix for defectsidentifiedduring testing
Invest in AI driven innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to foster the originality of ideas to productize them.
Analyzethe test gaps that resulted in customer issues and incorporate them into the test strategy.
Proactively,identifygaps in the regression test automation and improve automation coverage.

What You Will Be Bringing

Bachelor's / Master of Science Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent or a related field, or equivalent experience)
12+ years of experience in Testing routing or SD-WAN domain with at least 8+ years of Automation/Development experience.
In-depth knowledge of SDWAN, Security, Layer-2(VLAN/802.1Q), and Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT) and are at ease to ramp up quickly onnew technologiesand concepts.
Proficiencyin writing quality code with one of the programming languages such as Ruby, Python, and Golang.
Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and Gen-AI prompting techniques
Good understanding of traffic generators such asTRex, Linux Tools, Spirent, IXIA, etc and ability to explore tools and techniques to improvise the testing
Effective communication skills and proventrack recordof collaboration with stakeholders.

What makes you stand out

AI usage day-in and day-out
Feature bug fixing with better quality in Firmware or Backend or UI
The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management
Research of applications and Framework experience – Obtained patent(s), Published Whitepaper / Yellow paper on embedded solutions
Experience with developing frameworks for CI/CD pipeline
Working experience with Cisco and/or Cisco Catalyst Devices

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Why 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. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test - 12+yrs - Routing/SDWAN/L2/L3/Ruby/Python

Network Engineer (SD-WAN Expert / CCNP Certified)