Technical Lead - Software QA Engineer - System Testing (SD-WAN), Remote in the U.S.Application window is expected to close on 01/01/25At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We're making IT and networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works!
About the team:The MX System Test (SD-WAN) QA team takes pride in ensuring the end-to-end system of the Meraki MX and vMX product line is ready to use. The team works on testing customer use cases, integration testing, scalability testing, stress and longevity testing. This team is also responsible for qualifying security services such as malware detection, URL filtering, web security, IPS, threat modeling, SD-WAN and SaaS/IaaS security capabilities. 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.
About the Job:Meraki is looking for a Software QA Technical Leader to support system test qualification of our SD-WAN product offerings. Your responsibilities include crafting and building testbeds, creating and performing integrated/application tests that resemble customer use-cases for SD-WAN and Security solutions over physical, cloud, on-prem MX products and Meraki Dashboard. As part of a geographically distributed team, you will collaborate with multiple Meraki engineering teams and customers around the globe to develop a fully-furnished test strategy. To be successful in this role, you will need motivation, curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and experience with telco technologies and automation.
In addition to driving test strategy, test planning, and performing testing on large-scale networks, you will provide technical leadership to the entire System Test team to implement new ideas to optimize and drive the team's impact.
What You Will Be Doing:Deep Product Understanding: Master customer use cases/workflows for MX and vMX solutions.Collaborative Design: Engage in design discussions with product managers and developers, representing the QA team.Strategic Testing: Build test strategy documents for MX features, ensuring comprehensive coverage with QA and development teams.Automation & Innovation: Develop automation scripts for CI/CD, identify new testing tools, and enhance automation coverage.Leadership & Mentorship: Lead the MX System Test team, mentor early career engineers, and cultivate innovative thinking.What You Will Be Bringing:Bachelor's / Master of Science Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)8+ years of experience in Software Quality assurance with at least 5+ years of System testing or integration testing in large-scale routing, switching and wireless domains.Proficient in SDWAN, security, Layer-2 (VLAN/802.1Q), IPv6, and Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT), with strong coding skills in Ruby or Python.Experienced in working with cloud and containerized platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes, with a solid grasp of customer deployments for testing.Skilled in building and maintaining CI/CD automation, traffic profile creation, and end-to-end testing of embedded devices.Proven ability to direct a team of system test engineers, communicate effectively, and collaborate with team members.What makes you stand outThe ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature, platform, domain and enterprise teams, with a strong focus on business outcomes.The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management.Research of applications and Framework experience – Obtained patent(s), Published White-paper / Yellow paper on embedded solutions.Certifications in Cloud and Containerized platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, AliCloud, Kubernetes, Dockers, etc.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.
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