# 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

The Customer Validation Testing (CVT) team at Cisco is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to design, automate, configure, and qualify customer use cases based on IOS-XR for platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000.

Responsibilities:

- Crafting, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS XR platforms

- Designing and developing innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment

- Driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes

- Proactively seeking continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning

- Reproducing customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team

- Collaborating with the development team, account team, and customers to understand and validate customer use cases

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Master's degree 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 and software quality assurance

Preferred Qualifications:

- Certificate in CCIE (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center)

- Experience on platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000

- Demonstrated experience with RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) technologies and related protocols such as InfiniBand, RoCE, or iWARP

- Experience in OpenFlow, Netconf & REST API

- Background in network automation tools like pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot framework, and Cisco NSO

- Expertise in UNIX/Linux environments and Bash/Unix Shell Scripting

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $167,700.00 - $245,200.00

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- CCIE
- RDMA
- OpenFlow
- Netconf
- REST API
- pyATS
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Robot framework
- Cisco NSO
- UNIX/Linux environments
- Bash/Unix Shell Scripting

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