Job highlights

- The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management. Research of applications and Framework experience - Obtained patent(s),Published Whitepaper / Yellow paper on embedded solutions.
- Evaluate and develop simple features when required with Test Driven Development approach.
- Experience with developing frameworks for CI / CD pipeline.

Job Summary Cisco is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to join to support test qualification of our Dashboard that supports Cisco Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst product offerings. As a Senior SDET, your responsibility includes designing and building testbeds, creating and executing the integrated/application tests that resemble customer use-case for SD-WAN and Security solutions over physical, cloud, on-prem Cisco Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst products via Cisco Meraki Dashboard, and contributing to industry-leading technologies in the cloud ecosystem. As a part of a geographically distributed team, you will collaborate with multiple Cisco engineering teams and stakeholders around the globe to develop a fully furnished test strategy.

To be successful in this role, you need have motivation, curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and experience with telco technologies and automation as a breath.

What You Will Be Doing

- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the use cases/workflows of the MX solution deployed in the customer setting.
- Participate in requirements/design discussions with Product managers development team and represent the QA team.
- Design a test strategy document for the Cisco MX features and collaborate with other QA and development teams to cover all aspects of the features being developed.
- Execution of tests and reporting test results, and test metrics pertaining to these tests.
- Develop automation scripts ahead of feature testing to enable CI/CD (i.e. Automation Driven Testing).




- Evaluate and develop simple features when required with Test Driven Development approach
- Evaluate and provide a fix for defects identified during testing
- Invest in AI driven innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to foster the originality of ideas to productize them.
- Analyse the test gaps that resulted in customer issues and incorporate them into the test strategy.
- Proactively, identify gaps in the regression test automation and improve automation coverage.

What You Will Be Bringing

- Bachelor's / Master of Science Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent or a related field, or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of experience in Software Development Engineer in Test in routing or SD-WAN domain with at least 5+ years of Automation/Development experience.
- In-depth knowledge of SDWAN, Security, Layer-2 (VLAN/802.1Q), and Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT) and are at ease to ramp up quickly on new technologies and concepts.
- Proficiency in writing quality code with one of the programming languages such as Ruby, Python, and Golang.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and Gen-AI prompting techniques
- Good understanding of traffic generators such as TRex, Linux Tools, Spirent, IXIA, etc and ability to explore tools and techniques to improvise the testing
- Proven collaboration with stakeholders

What makes you stand out

- AI usage day-in and day-out
- Feature bug fixing with better quality in Firmware or Backend or UI
- The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management
- Research of applications and Framework experience - Obtained patent(s), Published Whitepaper / Yellow paper on embedded solutions
- Experience with developing frameworks for CI/CD pipeline
- Working experience with Cisco and/or Cisco Catalyst Devices

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📌 Software QA Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Bengaluru