Job Summary

Meet the Team: Distributed Systems Engineering (DSE) is a multi-billion-dollar business that generates its revenue primarily from the Web, Service Provider Edge, Core Optical markets. The organization in India deals with development of High-End Routers like ASR9000, NCS5500, NCS540, NCS560, NCS5700 and Optical products like NCS1010, NCS1014, NCS1004, NCS4000 and NCS2000 series. Exciting career opportunities open for enthusiastic and experienced Software professionals in India

Your Impact

- Delivering software with benchmarked quality and customer happiness, thereby enabling faster customer adoption.
- Uses expertise and creativity for cutting-edge product recommendation and solutions. Applies knowledge of Ciscos business strategies.
- Expertise in Optical Technologies DWDM, ROADM, OTN Coherent
- Own and execute system test strategy across end-to-end workflows, integrations .
- AI/ML-based testing approaches such as test generation, test optimization, anomaly detection, and failure prediction.
- Leverage Copilot and GenAI tools (eg, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate test development, refactoring, documentation, and root-cause analysis.
- Engage in debugging complex network problems and define solutions.
- Work on Network automation, algorithmic thinking and Analytics applications derived from customer use cases
- Work on continuous improvement and transformation. Scientific, Data driven testing.
- Collaborate effectively with teams across geographies, direct customer interfacing and stakeholder management.
- Hands-on with Manageability Applications OpenConfig, Restconf, Netconf-yang, Telemtery are a must.




- Write Python Automation test plans which define the automation strategy and test cases for new features / Solution Test / System Test
- Be part of a team which values open communication, empowerment, innovation and career development

Minimum Qualification

- Strong Software test engineering methodology and process knowledge
- Excellent knowledge and testing skill in Optical technologies
- Deep understanding of customer deployments, operations and the ability to translate brown field/green field deployments into test strategy with high efficacy
- Quick learner with an open mind to "grey box" testing, bringing in strategic on-the-box, off-the-box views that reflect the state of IOS-XR systems.
- Experience with Optical Line Systems Subsea Networks
- Experience in test engineering concepts and methodologies including test planning, test case design, test execution and test automation
- Experience with automation (TCL, Python), automation test tools and methodologies is required
- Excellent experience in Layer-0, Layer-1 traffic generators and analysers (eg Viavi, Agilent, Spirent, IXIA, etc)
- Strong written, verbal communication, and interpersonal skills
- Results oriented with a high degree of accountability, dedication and responsibility
- Typically requires MS/BS in EE/CS combined with 4-9 years proven experience
- Excellent problem solving skills, familiarity with Linux and modern software tools and techniques for development/debugging and solid software design and development skills

Preferred Qualification

- Industry certification such as CCNA/CCNP/CCIE/JCNA/JCIE will be a huge plus

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