Tech Leader-Testing, Network OS

THIS is a HYBRID ROLE LOCATED IN BOXBOROUGH, MA. There is a minimum requirement of 2 days onsite in the office per week.

Meet the Team

We are looking for a self-motivated development test engineer to join our software engineering team working on commercial products for Cable Service Provider applications. We are a small agile team, but we interact within a product team, with other product teams within Cisco, with vendors, and help reproduce and solve customer cases.

Your Impact

The Tech Leader-Testing, Network OS will contribute significantly to software quality assurance, customer satisfaction, and product reliability by combining technical expertise, automation, and customer-centric feedback.

Responsibilities:

• Test Plan Development: Define comprehensive test plans for specific software features to ensure functionality and reliability.

• Test Environment Setup: Establish and configure test environments required to execute various test cases effectively.
• Test Execution and Bug Identification: Execute manual and automated software tests to validate embedded software functionality. Identify, document, and report software bugs and issues for resolution.
• Test Automation: Automate tests for embedded software to enhance efficiency and accuracy in testing processes.
• Customer Advocacy: Act as a customer advocate by providing actionable design feedback to the development team to improve product quality and usability.
• System-Level Understanding and Testing: Perform control-plane, data-plane, packet forwarding, and packet scheduling system-level testing to ensure robust performance.
• Potentially engage in product security testing to safeguard against vulnerabilities.
• Linux Server Administration: Administer Linux servers using tools like vSphere and ESXi to support testing and development environments

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ of related experience or master's degree with 6+ years of related experience
• Extensive automation experience using Python
• Experience with test planning and execution for a product feature or functionality for network operating systems
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge with Linux
• Experience with L2/L3/L4 testing (such as Routers)
• Debugging experience with tools such as PDB (Python Debugger) or similar

Preferred Qualifications

• DOCSIS protocol experience is a HUGE plus
• In depth knowledge of one or more LAN/WAN protocols such as (Ethernet, MPLS, OSPF, BGP etc.) as well as Cable applications
• Solid foundation in TCP/IP protocol
• Familiarity with network provisioning and management tools including: DHCP servers, DNS Servers, TFTP Servers, Syslog servers, SNMP Management servers.
• Familiarity with network test tools including data traffic generators
• Knowledge of Radio Frequency

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