The Customer Validation Testing (CVT) team at Cisco is looking to develop solutions that power the largest networks in the world, and is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to design, automate, configure, and qualify customer use cases based on IOS-XR for platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000.
Requirements
- 3+ years of programming experience with Python, Go, Java, C or C++
- 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 automation or software quality assurance
- Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Crafting, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS XR platforms. This includes generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer demands, maximizing the right technical expertise and skills in each area.
- 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.
- Designing, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS-XR for platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000.
Other
- Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
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