Senior QA Engineer - Networking L2/L3

Cisco

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Remote (Usa-Milpitas, US) Posted 37 days ago $165,000–$241,400 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior QA Engineer on the IOS-XR team at Cisco, you will design and automate customer use cases for platforms like ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000, generating test plans and prioritizing tasks based on customer needs. You’ll develop innovative test frameworks and web-based GUIs using analytics and machine learning to analyze execution results, while also driving manual and automated testing, tracking defects, and collaborating with development teams to validate use cases. This role requires expertise in networking protocols such as ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, RSVP, LDP, Segment routing, and network programmability technologies like gNMI, NETCONF, YANG, REST APIs, RPC. Preferred skills include experience with Git, Jira, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, traffic generators, and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.

Skills

GIT Jira Jenkins CI/CD pyATS Pytest Ansible Robot Grafana telegraf Elasticsearch InfluxDB Ixia Spirent gNMI gRPC NETCONF YANG REST APIs RPC Linux KVM VMware Docker Kubernetes MPLS IPv6 GRE MPLS-TE LDP RSVP Segment routing L2VPN L3VPN EVPN Cisco IOS-XR

What you'll do

  • Design and develop innovative test frameworks for customer use cases on IOS-XR platforms.
  • Automate and qualify customer use cases by generating comprehensive test plans and prioritizing tasks dynamically.
  • Drive both manual and automated testing to raise, track, prioritize, and verify defects and fixes.
  • Reproduce customer issues in internal labs and generate detailed test execution reports.
  • Continuously improve test coverage and automation to optimize performance and configuration.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's in STEM with 7+ years or Master’s in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience.
  • Networking domain expertise including L2/L3 protocols like ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, and others.
  • Experience in networking software quality assurance and test case automation.
  • Proficiency in network automation frameworks such as pyATS, Pytest Ansible & Robot.
  • Strong Linux skills with knowledge of virtualization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Market check

Salary context

This $165,000–$241,400 range sits above 88% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000–$199,100

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$137,800–$177,481

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Cisco

Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity

Cisco currently has 113 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $165,000–$241,400 across 113 roles with salary data.

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