Software Qa Automation Engineer

Job Description At Cisco, we are a global leader in networking and IT, driving innovation and redefining how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Our mission is to shape the future of the internet by creating outstanding value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners. We are committed to fostering a diverse and collaborative environment where everyone can thrive and contribute to our collective success. What You'll Do As a CVT Solution Qualification Engineer, you will work alongside a dedicated, dynamic, and hardworking team to qualify and automate key technologies and solutions for deployment in high-end Cisco Web and Service Provider customer environments, impacting millions of users globally. Your responsibilities will include: Designing, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS-XR for ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, and 8000 platforms. Generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer needs. Developing test frameworks, tools, and web-based GUIs to support the execution environment and display analytics and machine learning-driven insights. Driving manual and automated test execution, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes. Proactively seeking improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration. Reproducing customer issues in internal test labs as requested by customer support teams. Generating test execution reports and technical whitepapers. Collaborating with cross-functional teams across multiple continents. Who You'll Work With As a senior member of this team, you ll work alongside a skilled group of engineers passionate about learning new technologies. The team consists of individuals with various years of experience, ranging from 3 to over 20 years, all of whom bring exceptional value to the table. Our team has a global presence with members located in the US, Canada, and India. You will also have opportunities to interact with groups such as Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Advanced Services, and the Customer Team. Who You Are You have a passion for qualifying and automating SP/web networking solutions and use cases to ensure smooth deployment for our customers. You have hands-on experience with qualifying, deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining SP/web networking technologies, particularly XR platforms. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor s degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of professional experience or a Master s Degree in Computer Science with 6+ years of professional experience. Experience with Networking Automation, Software Quality Assurance, protocol testing, and supporting Web/Service-provider customers. Experience with routing hardware/platforms/forwarding architecture and networking technologies. Hands-on experience with Python automation. Preferred Qualifications CCIE certification (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center). Experience with platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000. Experience with OpenFlow, Netconf, and REST API. Experience with network automation tools such as pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, and Cisco NSO. Experience with CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu UNIX/Linux and expertise in Bash/Unix Shell Scripting. Experience in configuring/fixing protocols such as ISIS/OSPF, BGP, L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, Segment Routing, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf & OpenConfig Yang Models. Why Cisco? #WeAreCisco At Cisco, we believe in the power of diversity and bringing our talents together to make a difference. We focus on developing innovative technology and powering a digital future for all. Cisco is a leader in the internet revolution, helping organizations around the world whether in health services, education, or business connect, collaborate, and succeed. We empower our employees to innovate, giving back to the community with paid volunteer days and supporting one another through both personal and career milestones. Join us, and bring your unique self to a place where passion for technology and world-changing ideas thrive. Qualification : Bachelors degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of professional experience or a Masters Degree in Computer Science with 6+ years of professional experience.