The Customer Validation Testing (CVT) team is looking to qualify and automate influential technologies, XR platforms, and solutions for deployment in high-end Cisco Web and Service Provider customers.
Requirements
- 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
- 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 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
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.
- 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.
Other
- Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience
- Industry certification such as CCIE/CCNP/Cisco DevNet will be a plus.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with AI and machine learning is a plus
- Understanding and hands on Cisco IOS/IOS-XR platforms
