Software Wi-Fi Engineer

You will join the MR Firmware Engineering team at Cisco, which is part of the Wireless Software Engineering Organisation. The team focuses on building and running software and hardware tests to ensure new releases meet quality and reliability standards. As a Software Wi-Fi Engineer, you will contribute to the success of the business by designing and scaling wireless testbed operations, executing test plans, and collaborating with various teams.

Your Impact

• Design and scale wireless testbed operations to test products and software before market launch
• Design and execute test plans to support next-generation Wi-Fi products and features
• Support firmware engineers in executing test cases, understanding test results, reproducing and investigating bugs
• Collaborate with Functional and Release engineers to plan release timelines for upcoming products and software releases
• Collaborate with Automation engineers to scale, improve and maintain testbed operations
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Hardware and Product Management teams to develop reliable and scalable testing processes
• Collaborate with Wi-Fi chipset vendors on a regular basis to troubleshoot and solve low-level Wi-Fi issues
• Own test topologies and testbeds from topology-diagram inception to production tests

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Networking, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in Wi-Fi QA and testing technologies/tools
• Strong foundation in computer wired and wireless networking (VLANs, DHCP, TCP, VoIP)
• Strong foundation of 802.11 wireless standards, RF, channels, and specs on 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz
• Proficiency in writing quality code with one of the programming or scripting languages in Ruby or Python
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI assistants to streamline QA workflows
• Experience with UI automation tools like Selenium or Cypress
• Good understanding of customer deployments and applying those learnings to in-house testing
• Practical communication skills and proven track record of collaboration with stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in product and software qualification testing
• Experience in automation framework programming
• Experience in configuring wireless routers or access points
• Experience in working with Gitlab, Jenkins and Jira

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