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The Cisco Meraki Wireless Engineering Group, is industry leader in enterprise WLAN with a proven record in building innovative wireless solutions. We are looking for hardworking and dedicated wireless system architect who can design, develop products based on intent based networking.

Do you enjoy spearheading innovation through personal initiative? Would it excite you to be part of a highly motivated best of breed engineering team who is redefining and refreshing the software portfolio Cisco's Wireless products? Would you like to challenge yourself in driving a key technology transition in the Wireless Industry while working the market leader? Would you cherish to develop code using the most modern development methods using a test-driven development focus? Can you demonstrate the ability to develop software with a system-level focus while understanding the impact of every component, work with minimal supervision, collaborate with a multi-functional team and demonstrates technical knowledge and project management experience to accomplish the goals.

About the team:

You will join the Cisco Meraki System and Solution Test (SST) team that is fully embedded within Software Engineering. The SST team builds and runs any and all software and hardware tests to ensure that new releases meet our quality and reliability standards. Our products are used in over a million networks and our customers rely on our products to serve tens of millions of people. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. We are looking for a QA Automation engineer who is as passionate about quality as we are with a focus on the customer experience. Your contributions will make direct impact to the success of our business. Cisco Meraki engineers put customer experience first, own projects from beginning to end, and are empowered to make impactful decisions.

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points below. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great teams come from a diverse set of backgrounds.

As a SST Test Engineer, you will focus on the following:

• SST QA Engineer to design and develop tools that test the functionality of Cisco products, validating quality and stability from a system perspective that emulates customer environments.
• Perform test planning, automation, manual testing of Wireless LAN Controller and Access Point features attending to customer issues for Enterprise Wireless Products.
• Work with local and remote teams to review Product Requirements Document, SW Functional and Design Specifications, and other meaningful documentation to extract test requirements and provide design/execution for testability input and system automation.
• Increase test efficiency and effectiveness through review of customer found issues and application of appropriate test approach, technology, tools, and innovation.
• Adopt Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques to uplift test automation and manual execution.
• Help the test team to expand test technology and networking knowledge by keeping abreast with the latest developments.
• Help the department to retain this knowledge through systematic archival of meaningful documentation and equipment.

You are ideal for this role if…

• You have hands-on wireless knowledge on 11ac, 11ax and 11be standards
• You have hands-on L2 (VLANs, WLANs, LACP, etc) and L3 protocol knowledge (OSPF, VRF, ISIS)
• You are proficient with writing quality code (automation test code)
• You have 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance with a focus on test automation
• You have 5+ years hands-on experience building and maintaining test suites, experience with scripting languages like Python
• You have 3+ years of experience with Jenkins, XPRESSO and other DevOps Tools
• You are a proven technical communicator
• You are an enthusiastic advocate for testing best practices
• You use data and metrics to inform decisions
• You are able to weigh technical trade-offs against business goals
• You hold deep technical curiosity

Bonus points if you have the following:

• Experience with Docker and/or other container technologies
• CCIE and equivalent certifications
• OpenAI Tools on Larege Language Models (LLM)
• Experience with Rails
• Experience with DevOps Open source tools

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

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