# Software Development Engineer in Test

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, NC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,300.00 - $203,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This is a hybrid role at the RTP, NC office.

The Cisco MX QA team ensures the end-to-end system of the Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst product line is ready to use. The team tests customer use cases, integrates testing, scales testing, stress and longevity testing, and qualifies security services such as malware detection, URL filtering, web security, IPS, threat modeling, SD-WAN and SaaS/IaaS security capabilities.

Your Impact:

- Develop a strong understanding of Cisco Meraki MX use cases and workflows in customer environments.

- Collaborate with Product Managers and development teams to represent QA in requirements and design discussions.

- Create and execute test strategies, reporting results and metrics to ensure feature quality.

- Build and maintain automation scripts to support CI/CD and improve regression test coverage.

- Drive innovation by applying AI-driven ideas and contributing to feature development with a Test Driven Development approach.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree, combined with 7 years of related experience in Software Development Engineer in software testing, or Master's Degree of Science Degree in Computer Science, combined with 4 years of related experience or PhD, combined with 1 year of related experience.

- Prior experience in testing software network security for features such as intrusion prevention/detection, content filtering, advanced malware protection, geolocation, SSL, TLS, etc and performance KPIs.

- Prior experience in how traffic generators such as Spirent, IXIA, and TREX work.

- 3+ years of Automation/Development experience.

- Experience in writing feature development code with one of the programming languages, such as: Python, Ruby, C++, Golang.

- Prior experience in AI coding tools and Gen-AI prompting techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Prior experience in testing SD-WAN & Routing Reliability: Verifying policy-based routing, dynamic path selection, Auto VPN failover, and WAN load balancing.

- Feature bug fixing with better quality in Firmware or Backend or UI.

- Background in distributed cloud environments.

- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to peers and management.

- Experience with developing frameworks for CI/CD pipelines.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $139,300.00 to $203,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Ruby
- C++
- Golang
- Spirent
- IXIA
- TREX
- AI coding tools
- Gen-AI prompting techniques
- network security
- intrusion prevention/detection
- content filtering
- advanced malware protection
- geolocation
- SSL
- TLS

### Nice to have
- SD-WAN
- Routing Reliability
- policy-based routing
- dynamic path selection
- Auto VPN failover
- WAN load balancing
- Firmware
- Backend
- UI
- distributed cloud environments
- CI/CD pipelines

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