Software Test Automation Engineer

Role details

Meet the Team You will join Cisco's fast-paced and growing Wireless LAN business unit in India, where the work environment has a startup-like culture. You will be part of a dynamic team responsible for the Cisco Enterprise Wireless Access Point product line. The team works with local and remote engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to validate product quality and stability from a system perspective that reflects real customer environments. Your Impact • Design and develop tools for system-level testing of Cisco Enterprise Wireless Access Point products, validating functionality, quality, and stability in customer-like environments. • Plan and execute functional, system, manual, and automated testing for Access Point software features and modules. • Review Product Requirements Documents, SW Functional and Design Specifications, and other relevant documentation to extract test requirements and identify testability needs. • Provide test design and execution input, and build, maintain, and expand test automation to deliver sufficient coverage across ongoing software releases. • Investigate customer-found Access Point issues by designing reproduction scenarios, analyzing failures, validating fixes, and incorporating the learnings into regression coverage and test strategy. • Technically lead and guide junior engineers through test planning, automation, debugging, execution, and technical reviews. • Collaborate with local and remote teams to drive defects, dependencies, and open issues to closure while communicating risks and status clearly. • Advise management on the overall test progress, quality status, readiness, and release risks for assigned projects. • Increase test efficiency and effectiveness by applying appropriate test approaches, technologies, tools, and innovations based on product and customer needs. • Help the test team expand its wireless networking and test technology knowledge by keeping abreast of the latest developments and systematically archiving relevant documentation and equipment information. Minimum Qualifications • Typically requires an MSEE or MS in Computer Science with 10+ years of related experience, or a BSEE or BS in Computer Science with 12+ years of related experience. • Extensive experience with Wireless LAN technologies, Access Point software, and Enterprise Wireless products. • End-to-end wireless domain knowledge, including the ability to design and troubleshoot Access Point deployments in medium-to-large customer-like environments. • Strong communication and presentation skills, assertiveness, and the ability to take discussions and open issues to closure with local and remote teams. • Very strong problem-solving skills. • Ability to exercise judgment within defined procedures to determine appropriate action. • Ability to interact cross-functionally and drive issues to the desired solution for customers. • Ability to work under minimal supervision and with very general instructions. • Strong scripting knowledge in Python, with experience understanding and coding programmability transports using native and OpenConfig models. Preferred Qualifications • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to work effectively as part of a team. • Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work independently with minimal managerial oversight. • Experience supporting or working with Access Points in customer deployments. • Openness to continuous learning and commitment to ongoing self-improvement. • Experience initiating or participating in organizational efforts to improve group productivity and test effectiveness, and contributing to overall test strategies. Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 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. 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