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