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1363024 - Senior Test Automation Engineer, Firmware

Cisco

Remote US / Canada,

Number Of Vacancies: 1

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A TEST AUTOMATION ENGINEER

You may design a testbed from the ground up that has the ability to change topologies on the fly. You will have an in-house automation framework at your disposal as well as APIs to hook into for further automation. You will have the autonomy to craft and implement a solution as well as the knowledge and experience of team members to help you along the way. As a senior engineer, helping mentor more junior engineers to develop their skills as well.

DUTIES COULD INCLUDE:

Complete new product testbed operations to test products and software before market launch.
Develop and execute test plans for new features before they ship to customers.
Collaborate with our firmware engineers to implement test cases, understand test results, reproduce and investigate bugs.
Work with third-party vendors to test bug fixes and new driver patches.
Manually reproduce problems discovered during automated testbed operations and work directly with firmware engineers to investigate them.
Running performance and regression tests, developing new tests around security efficacy and performance.
Partner with automation engineers to scale, improve and maintain testbed operations.

YOU ARE AN IDEAL CANDIDATE IF YOU HAVE:

A technical degree or equivalent experience with a great foundation in the basics of computer networking.
5+ years of experience in creating and carrying out system-level test plans.
Experience with at least one scripting language such as Ruby or Python.
Knowledge of end-to-end testing of physical embedded devices
Effective communication skills and proven track record of collaboration with others.
A passion for quality, an appetite for learning about software and systems, and an interest in breaking things to learn how to make them better.

BONUS POINTS

Experience in configuring and debugging networking equipment such as Switches, Security Cameras or Security Appliances (ex: testing IDS/IPS, Malware detection, NGFW, Firewall)
Experience with configuring and monitoring linux systems using command line tools and utilities.
Solid understanding of core network protocols like VLAN, TCP/IP, BGP, IPv6, etc.
Experience with cameras, audio/video codecs, video processing, video streaming or testing consumer audio/video devices
Experience with hardware test tools such as Ixia or Spirent
Using development infrastructure tools, such as Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, JIRA
Agile development and proficient with SDLC and testing life cycle

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