Cisco · 1 week ago
Senior QA Engineer - Networking L2/L3
Milpitas, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$165K/yr - $241K/yr
5+ years expCisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations. As a Senior QA Engineer, you will design, automate, and qualify customer use cases for IOS-XR platforms, collaborating with teams to enhance testing processes and customer satisfaction.
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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, as well as develop web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to thoughtfully display and analyze execution results
Driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes
Proactively seek continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning
Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team, generate test execution
Collaborating with the development team, account team, and customers to understand and validate customer use cases
Qualification
Required
Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience
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 software quality assurance
Preferred
Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools
Industry certification such as CCIE/CCNP/Cisco DevNet will be a plus
Experience with network automation frameworks like pyATS, Pytest Ansible & Robot
Experience with network monitoring tools like Grafana, telegraf, Elasticsearch and InfluxDB
Experience in working with traffic generators like Ixia and Spirent
Experience in network programmability - gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, YANG, REST APIs, RPC
Strong Linux experience, with preferred knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies - KVM, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Experience with AI and machine learning is a plus
Understanding and hands on Cisco IOS/IOS-XR platforms
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision insurance
A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
Flexible vacation time off program
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
Annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
Company
Cisco
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