Python Software QA Lead - Networking(BGP), Segment Routing - 12 to 15 years - Bangalore
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Location:Bangalore, India
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Area of InterestEngineer - Software
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Job TypeProfessional
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Technology InterestService Provider
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Job Id1426341
What You'll Do
As a CVT Solution qualification engineer, you will collaborate with highly talented, dynamic, passionate, and diverse team members to work on qualification and automation of state-of-the-art technologies, XR platforms and solutions for deployment in high-end Cisco Web & Service Provider customers touching an endless number of users worldwide.
You will be responsible to:
- Design, automate, configure & qualify customer use cases based on IOS-XR based ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, 8000 platforms
- Generate Testplan and dynamisms in deriving priority based on customer demands with right set of technical expertise/skills in each area
- Design and develop state of the art test framework and tools to support test execution environment.
- Develop Web based GUIs to use analytics and Machine learning to intelligently display and analyze execution results
- Execute test cases manually and through automation, raise, track, prioritize, and verify defects and fixes
- Pro-actively seek to make continuous improvements to Test coverage, execution and automation. Optimize performance and dimensioning of configurations.
- Reproduce customer issues in internal tests lab as requested by customer support team
- Generate Test execution reports and technical whitepapers
- Collaborate with teams across geographies in multiple continents.
Who You'll Work with
As a senior member of this team, you will work with a tight-knit, highly skilled team that demonstrates an aptitude and appetite for learning new technologies, evidenced by the ability to expand upon core knowledge. Our engineers are passionate about what they do and go above and beyond to assist not just the customer, but also their teammates and peers. “Work hard, play harder” is the motto of the team. The team is a good mix of engineers with varying years of experience (from 3 years all the way to 20+years) in Cisco technologies and solutions, and each-and-every-one of them bring phenomenal value to the table. Our team has global presence located in US, Canada and India centers.
In addition to working with a team of seasoned Networking professionals on day-to-day basis, you will also get to socialize with other groups, such as Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Advanced Services and Customer Team.
Who You Are
You have passion to qualify and automate SP, web networking solutions and usecases to ensure smooth deployment by these customers. You have experience qualifying, deploying, troubleshooting and/or maintaining SP/web networking technologies and especially XR platforms. Network design and/or deployment experience is a big plus.
Minimum qualifications
- You own a Bachelors in a technical field (CS/EE preferred)
- You have atleast 12 - 15 years of Software Quality assurance experience in network automation and, protocol testing and experience supporting Web/Service-provider customers
- You have a Cisco Routing & Switching/Service Provider background
- You are knowledgeable in Routing hardware/platforms/forwarding architecture and networking technologies
- You have good knowledge and configuration/troubleshooting experience in Protocols : ISIS/OSPF, BGP, L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, SegmentRouting, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf & OpenConfig Yang Models
- You have good network automation skills using Python/GoLang and good hands-on experience automating features on networking devices & traffic generators
- You have good knowledge in network automation tools like pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot framework & Cisco NSO.
- You have good experience in any of CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu UNIX/Linux and expertise on Bash/Unix Shell Scripting
- Strong desire to learn with an ability to tackle complex problems creatively
- Excellent multi-tasking, written & verbal communication, and organizational skills
- Must be result-oriented and have a high degree of accountability, commitment and responsibility
Desired qualifications
- You possess a CCIE (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center)
- You have extensive hands-on experience on the following platforms: ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000
- Experience in OpenFlow, Netconf & REST API
Why Cisco
At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference.
Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.
- We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.
- We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.
- We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.
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