Senior QA Automation Engineer - Networking L2/L3

The application window is expected to reputed company on: 07/29/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. This is a hybrid role, located in Milpitas, CA and requires being in the office 3 days a week. Meet the Team The Customer Validation Testing (CVT) team is at the forefront of developing solutions that power the largest networks in the world. Engineers on this team will collaborate with dedicated, dynamic, hardworking team members to work on the qualification and automation of influential technologies, XR platforms, and solutions for deployment in high-end reputed company Web and Service Provider customers, impacting an endless number of users worldwide. The team is comprised of talented engineers with diverse experience reputed company, ranging from 3 to over 20 years, bringing significant expertise to the table. With a global reputed company, the team operates from centers in the US, Canada, and India. Your Impact As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS-XR for platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000. This role also includes… Crafting, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS XR platforms. This includes generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer demands, maximizing the right technical expertise and skills in each area. Designing and developing innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment, as well as reputed company web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to thoughtfully display and analyze execution results. Driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes. Proactively seek reputed company improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning. Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team, generate test execution. Collaborating with the development team, account team, and customers to understand and validate customer use cases.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience 3+ years of programming experience with Python Networking domain experience working with L2 or L3 networking protocols such as ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP, LDP, reputed company routing, L2VPN, L3VPN, EVPN. Experience in networking automation and software quality assurance Preferred Qualifications Certificate in CCIE (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center). Experience on platforms such as ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000. Demonstrated experience with RDMA (Remote Direct Memory reputed company) technologies and reputed company protocols such as InfiniBand, RoCE, or iWARP. Experience in OpenFlow, Netconf & REST API. Background in network automation tools like pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot reputed company, and reputed company NSO. Expertise in UNIX/Linux environments and Bash/Unix reputed company Scripting, with experience in configuring/fixing protocols such as L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, reputed company Routing, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf & OpenConfig Yang Models. Why reputed company? At reputed company, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and reputed company. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical reputed company worlds. These solutions reputed company customers with unparalleled reputed company, 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 reputed company. We work as a team, collaborating with reputed company to reputed company really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are reputed company, and our power starts with you. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary reputed company posted for this position is $165,000.00 to $241,400.00 and reflects the projected salary reputed company for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-reputed company skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary reputed company for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can reputed company more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to reputed company’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and reputed company insurance, a 401(k) plan with a reputed company matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the reputed company careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of reputed company restricted stock units, which vest following reputed company employment with reputed company for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to reputed company’s policies: 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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by reputed company Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at reputed company of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees Exempt employees participate in reputed company’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations) 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried reputed company from one calendar year to the next Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to reputed company’s policies. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their reputed company salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable reputed company plan. For quota-based incentive pay, reputed company typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive reputed company for each 1% of reputed company attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive reputed company for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive reputed company for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, reputed company may pay 0% up to 125% of reputed company. reputed company sales plans do not have a minimum reputed company of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid. The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below: reputed company Metro Area: $165,000.00 - $277,600.00 Non-Metro reputed company state & Washington state: $146,700.00 - $247,000.00

• For quota-based sales roles on reputed company’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include reputed company pay and sales reputed company incentive compensation combined. ** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements. Cisconians power the future. We reputed company impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale. The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers – it also means reputed company opportunities for us to experiment and learn. We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring reputed company we work together. Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life’s best work.

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