Hiring: Senior QA Automation Engineer - Networking L2/L3 Company: Cisco Location: Milpitas, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 12:53:43 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Ansible, BGP, CI/CD, Docker, Elasticsearch, Git, Grafana, InfluxDB, Jenkins, Jira, Kubernetes, Linux, MPLS, Machine Learning, Python, Quality Assurance, REST, Segment, gRPC, iOS, pytest About the job Experience: •20 years, bringing significant expertise to the table. With a global presence, the team operates from centers in the US, Canada, and India. •3+ years of programming experience with Python •40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. •Over 20 years, bringing significant expertise to the table. With a global presence, the team operates from centers in the US, Canada, and India. Required Skills: •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 develop 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 continuous 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. Qualifications: •Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience •Networking domain experience working with L2 or L3 networking protocols such as ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, MPLS-TE, LDP, RSVP, LDP, Segment routing, L2VPN, L3VPN, EVPN. •Applied hands-on capability in GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools •Industry certification such as CCIE/CCNP/Cisco DevNet will be a plus. •Strong Linux experience, with preferred knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies - KVM, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes •Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. •Understanding and hands on Cisco IOS/IOS-XR platforms •7+ years of relevant experience or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience Compensation: •$167,700 - $245,200 / year •And/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!