Software Engineer Switching Test

Join Cisco's Team of Seasoned Engineers

Collaborate with a vibrant technical community to develop some of the world's most widely deployed Enterprise Switches.

Your Impact

• Document, maintain, and monitor testing progress reports and communicate status to team and management.
• Design test beds, identify necessary equipment, build topology maps, and estimate test efforts.
• Tackle problems failures on local systems and analyze results.
• Work with development team to debug and reproduce software defects.
• Apply verification and validation methods to improve and ensure the quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree+ 3 years of related experience, or Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or technical equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with Test automation preferably with Python.
• Experience with real-time OS (e.g. Linux, Cisco IOS).
• Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals and networking protocols.
• Ability to diagnose software and network issues, interpret logs, and collaborate with development for the issue resolution and verification.
• Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts and applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Platform architecture and networking concepts.
• Experience on Forwarding and network features testing.
• Hands-on experience or Understanding of Networking technologies (Ethernet, VLAN, Layer 2/Layer 3, Multicast, Virtualization, Netconf, SNMP etc.)
• Hands-on familiarity with network test tools such as Ixia, Spirent.

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