Senior QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, configure, and qualify customer use cases based on Cisco IOS-XR platforms.
• Create test plans and prioritize validation tasks based on customer demands.
• Develop test frameworks, test execution tools, and web-based GUIs using analytics and machine learning to display and analyze results.
• Execute test cases manually and through automation, and raise, track, prioritize, and verify defects and fixes.
• Improve test coverage, execution, automation, performance, and configuration dimensioning.
• Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs and generate test execution results.
• Collaborate with development, account, support, and customer teams to understand and validate use cases.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or a master's degree in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of programming experience with Python.
• Experience with L2 or L3 networking protocols, including ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP, Segment Routing, L2VPN, L3VPN, and EVPN.
• Experience in networking automation and software quality assurance.
• Preferred: CCIE certification in Routing & Switching, Service Provider, or Data Center.
• Preferred: experience with Cisco platforms including ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, and 8000.
• Preferred: experience with RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCE, or iWARP.
• Preferred: experience with OpenFlow, Netconf, and REST API.
• Preferred: experience with pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot Framework, and Cisco NSO.
• Preferred: UNIX/Linux experience and Bash/Unix shell scripting.
• Preferred: experience configuring or fixing L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, Segment Routing, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf, and OpenConfig Yang Models.

Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Milpitas, California, with three days per week in the office.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
• Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
• Paid holidays, birthday time off, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, and sick time.
• Optional paid volunteer time and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
• Eligibility for annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies.