# Senior QA Engineer

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

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## Description

The System Integration Testing (SIT) team at Cisco validates how new products, features, and technologies work together across Cisco IOS XR platforms and complete network solutions. As a Senior QA Engineer, you will lead system integration testing for IOS XR platforms and solutions, including ASR 9000, NCS 5500, and Cisco 8000.

Responsibilities:

- Integrate new product introductions (NPIs) and validate IOS XR features across hardware platforms, software releases, and network environments.

- Design end-to-end test plans for Service Provider and Data Center solutions, including interoperability, scale, performance, and resiliency testing.

- Develop and improve automated test frameworks, tools, and execution environments.

- Perform tests manually and through automation; document results; and track defects through verification.

- Identify integration risks and improve test coverage, automation, and execution efficiency.

- Reproduce and analyze issues in system test labs and partner with development teams to resolve them.

- Collaborate with product, development, and system teams to align test strategy with requirements and release readiness.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 7+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree in a STEM field with 5+ years of relevant experience.

- 4+ years of experience with networking protocols such as IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP, Segment Routing (SR), SRv6, CFM, L2VPN, L3VPN, and EVPN.

- 4+ years of experience in networking software quality assurance, system integration, or system-level testing.

Preferred Qualifications:

- CCIP certification in Routing and Switching, Service Provider, or Data Center.

- Experience with platforms such as ASR 9000, NCS 5500, NCS 5000, NCS 540/NCS 560, NCS 6000, CRS, or Cisco 8000.

- Experience with Data Center technologies, including RDMA and protocols such as InfiniBand, RoCE, or iWARP.

- Experience with OpenFlow, NETCONF, and REST APIs.

- Familiarity with automation tools such as pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot Framework, and Cisco NSO.

- Strong UNIX/Linux and shell scripting skills.

- Hands-on experience configuring or troubleshooting L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, Segment Routing, IPv6, MPLS LDP/RSVP-TE, multicast, SNMP, telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, and OpenConfig YANG models.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Opportunities for professional growth and development

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## Skills

### Required
- IS-IS
- BGP
- MPLS
- IPv6
- GRE
- MPLS-TE
- LDP
- RSVP
- Segment Routing (SR)
- SRv6
- CFM
- L2VPN
- L3VPN
- EVPN
- UNIX/Linux
- shell scripting

### Nice to have
- CCIP certification
- pyATS
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Robot Framework
- Cisco NSO
- OpenFlow
- NETCONF
- REST APIs
- InfiniBand
- RoCE
- iWARP

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