Senior Software Test Automation Engineer (SDET) - Networking and Python OR Ruby-coding required

This position is hybrid, requiring to be on site two days per week in our San Francisco, CA office.

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You will join the Meraki Security and SD-WAN (MX) Quality Assurance team that is fully embedded within Software Engineering. The QA team builds and runs any and all software and hardware tests to ensure that new releases meet our quality and reliability standards. Our products are used in over a million networks and our customers rely on our products to serve tens of millions of people. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. We are looking for a senior QA test automation engineer who is as passionate about quality as we are. Your contributions will make a direct impact to the success of our business. Meraki engineers put customer experience first, own projects from beginning to end, and are empowered to make impactful decisions.

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the use cases/workflows of the Meraki MX deployed in the customer environment.
• Participate in requirements/design discussions with Product managers & development team and represent the QA team.
• Design a test strategy document for the Meraki MX features and collaborate with development teams to cover all aspects of the features being developed.
• Execution of tests and reporting test results, and test metrics pertaining to these tests.
• Develop automation scripts in parallel or ahead with feature testing to enable CI/CD (i.e Automation Driven Testing)
• Analyze the test gaps that resulted in customer issues and incorporate them into the test strategy.
• Understand and build tests to validate cross-platform feature support such as VPN.
• Identify gaps in the regression test automation and improve automation coverage.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of testing experience in data networking, security, or cloud networking environment
• 7+ years of test automation experience
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Ruby or Python
• Solid understanding of core network protocols like VLAN, TCP/IP, BGP, IPv6, etc.
• Test automation experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali-Cloud, ESXi, XEN
• Passionate about automation testing with scalability in mind

• Knowledge and experience in firewall, security vulnerability testing
• Performance testing using equipment such as Ixia or Spirent
• Using development infrastructure tools, such as Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, JIRA
• Knowledge of C++ or any object-oriented programming language

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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