# Senior QA Automation Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $167,700.00 - $245,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This is a hybrid role located in Milpitas, CA, requiring 3 days in the office per week.

The Customer Validation Testing (CVT) team at Cisco develops solutions for large networks worldwide. As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will design, automate, configure, and qualify customer use cases based on IOS-XR for platforms like ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000.

Key responsibilities:

- Craft and automate customer use cases for IOS XR platforms

- Design and develop innovative test frameworks and tools

- Drive test cases manually and through automation, track defects and fixes

- Proactively seek improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation

- Collaborate with development teams, account teams, and customers

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's in STEM with 7+ years of experience or Master's in STEM with 5+ years of experience

- 3+ years of programming experience with Python

- Networking domain experience with L2 or L3 networking protocols

- Experience in networking automation or software quality assurance

Preferred qualifications:

- Hands-on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipeline tools

- Industry certification like CCIE/CCNP/Cisco DevNet

- Experience with network automation frameworks like pyATS, Pytest Ansible & Robot

- Experience with network monitoring tools like Grafana, telegraf, Elasticsearch, and InfluxDB

The starting salary range for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00, reflecting the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- L2/L3 networking protocols
- networking automation
- software quality assurance

### Nice to have
- GIT
- Jira
- Jenkins
- CI/CD pipeline tools
- pyATS
- Pytest Ansible & Robot
- Grafana
- telegraf
- Elasticsearch
- InfluxDB

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