Hybrid Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET

at Cisco

• Job title: Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $137,000 - $200,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Linux, Python, Ruby, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, RTP, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Development Engineer in Test ensuring quality for Cisco's cloud-managed products. Collaborating with teams to enhance features and automation testing practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strong understanding of Cisco Meraki MX use cases and workflows in customer environments.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and development teams to represent QA in requirements and design discussions.
• Create and execute test strategies, reporting results and metrics to ensure feature quality.
• Build and maintain automation scripts to support CI/CD and improve regression test coverage.
• Drive innovation by applying AI-driven ideas and contributing to feature development with a Test Driven Development approach.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree, combined with 7 years of related experience in Software Development Engineering in Test, or in routing or SD-WAN domains, or Master's Degree of Science Degree in Computer Science, combined with 4 years of related experience or PhD, combined with 1 year of related experience.
• 3+ years of Automation/Development experience.
• Proficiency in writing quality feature development code with one of the programming languages such as: Ruby, Python, C, C++, Golang and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and Gen-AI prompting techniques.
• In-depth knowledge of SDWAN, Security, Layer-2(VLAN/802.1Q), and Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT) and are at ease to ramp up quickly on new technologies and concepts.
• Good understanding of traffic generators such as TRex, Linux Tools, Spirent, IXIA, etc and ability to explore tools and techniques to improvise testing.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
• Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter