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Cisco Software QA Technical Leader in Bangalore, India
Technical Leader Solutions Testing Sonic
Meet the Team
The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and application. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition.
This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture. They are the developers and leaders who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies.
You will be involved with a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.
Your Impact
As a Technical Leader, you'll be part of an agile team engaged in the design, development and execution of tests to qualify network performance for AI/ML capability. You will be a part of our solutions team which works in a fast-paced environment and be responsible for end-to-end product testing and production support.
In this role you will leverage your strong Python automation skills for scripting and testing, with some opportunities for development work. You will work with automation frameworks like PyTest to automate and streamline the testing process. You will be expected to both learn from and make contributions to the open-source community to drive innovative solutions in this space.
Other responsibilities will include..
Leading discussions with customers and gathering technical requirements
Building out testing environments for system/solution validation
Developing and enhancing test frameworks and benchmarking tools
Defining and gathering data for network performance benchmarking
Troubleshooting customer issues
Leading projects and mentoring other team members
Minimum Qualifications
Around 15 years of experience in Product Testing and automation, experience within the networking or telecommunication industry. Preferably in product companies with very good exposure on distributed architecture and networking (routers and switches).
Adept in Python as coding language. Actively coding and automating functionalities with at least 5+ years of hands-on experience with virtualization and container technologies e.g. Docker.
Hands-on experience working with data-plane and control-plane software, along with Linux user space and OS internals. Strong understanding of networking technologies including L2/L3, VLANs, Port Channels, LAG, VXLAN, Segment Routing, BGP, QoS, and ACLs.
Experience in designing, modelling, performance testing. Worked with opensource tools and databases (e.g. Redis). Experience in writing testcases and testing of software for high performing and scalable data center / service provider networking products.
Comfortable working on technical projects in a complex development environment.
Self-motivated and quick learner with excellent problem-solving skills, logical thinking and a hunger to learn new technologies.
Good team player with nice communication and presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with test frameworks, traffic generators (commercial & open source)
Previous experience in a customer-facing environment
Previous experience leading teams
Exposure to RDMA, HPC networks
Knowledge of RoCE and Infini band protocols
Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community
Working knowledge of GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools.
Fair understanding of the network security requirements.
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.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
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