Software Development Test Engineer

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Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.


Meet the Team:

Cisco Networking Engineering (CNE) - erstwhile 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.

Your Impact:

• Delivering software with benchmarked quality and customer happiness, thereby enabling faster customer adoption.
• Uses expertise and creativity for innovative product recommendation and solutions. Applies knowledge of Cisco's business strategies.
• Automated End-to-End System/Solution test experience needed.
• 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.
• 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
• Strong in Software engineering test methodology and process knowledge

Minimum Qualification

• 5-8 years of experience working in optical features and having expertise in the sam
• Feature and Domain Ownership: Own multiple features or domains such as optical applications or datapath of a product, ensuring end-to-end responsibility.
• Customer and Design Team Interface: Act as an interface between the product design team and customers to translate requirements effectively.
• Feature Testing: Work on feature tests of DWDM line systems, EDFAs, Raman amplifiers, ROADMs, and control loops.
• Automation first: Should be really proficient in Python automation to be able to automate tests as well as framework for faster coverage
• Test Design: Design tests to evaluate software quality, accuracy, and functionality using various testing methods.
• Documentation Mapping: Understand product and customer design documents and map them to test efforts.
• Testing Types: Perform functional, performance, security, and regression testing.
• Peer Reviews: Conduct and engage in peer reviews of test plans and automation scripts.
• Lab Environment: Plan, build, and maintain complex optical line systems in lab environments for solution-level testing.
• System-Level Testing: Conduct system-level testing using fully automated methods with Python, covering management interfaces such as CLI, Netconf, Restconf, OpenConfig, SNMP, and Telemetry.
• NMS/EMS: Knowledge and testing/automation skill in NMS/EMS is plus
• Debugging: Participate in debugging complex network issues during testing and in customer networks.
• Collaboration: Collaborate and communicate effectively across geographies, including direct customer interfacing and stakeholder management.
• Agile Environment: Work in an agile development environment, participate in sprint activities, and align with CI pipelines.
• Continuous Improvement: Engage in continuous improvement and transformation with scientific, data-driven testing.
• Team Culture: Be part of a team valuing open communication, empowerment, innovation, and career development.

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

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