2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Create Python automation test plans, frameworks, and test cases for new features, solution testing, and system testing.
- Design and execute functional, performance, security, regression, and system-level tests for optical networking features.
- Test DWDM line systems, EDFAs, Raman amplifiers, ROADMs, and control loops.
- Plan, build, and maintain complex optical line-system laboratory environments.
- Automate management-interface testing using CLI, Netconf, Restconf, OpenConfig, SNMP, and Telemetry.
- Debug complex network issues in test environments and customer networks.
- Perform security assessments, threat analysis, root-cause analysis, and security feature testing.
- Own multiple product features or domains and translate requirements between customers and product design teams.
- Conduct peer reviews of test plans and automation scripts and participate in CI-aligned agile activities.
- Collaborate across geographies with engineering teams, customers, and stakeholders while driving data-driven testing improvements.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience working with optical features.
- Expertise in optical applications or product datapath domains with end-to-end feature ownership.
- Strong proficiency in Python automation for test automation and framework development.
- Strong knowledge of software engineering test methodologies and processes.
- Experience testing DWDM line systems, EDFAs, Raman amplifiers, ROADMs, and control loops.
- Experience with functional, performance, security, regression, and system-level testing.
- Ability to interpret product and customer design documents and map them to test efforts.
- Experience with network debugging and customer-facing technical collaboration.
- Knowledge of NMS/EMS testing and automation is a plus.
- Ability to work in an agile development environment and align testing with CI pipelines.
Benefits
- The role offers a team culture focused on open communication, empowerment, innovation, and career development.
- Application window is expected to close on December 30, 2026, but the posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or enough applications are received.
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.