Cisco
Senior QA Automation Engineer - Networking L2/L3
$149K–$282K
Milpitas, California, US · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years with a Bachelor’s in STEM or 5+ years with a Master’s in STEM; 3+ years programming with Python.
- Education
- Bachelor’s in STEM or Master’s in STEM.
About the job
Designs, automates, and qualifies customer networking use cases on IOS-XR platforms, while developing test tools and validating customer issues and fixes.
What you'll do
- Create test plans and automate, configure, and qualify customer use cases on IOS-XR platforms.
- Develop test frameworks, tools, and web-based GUIs for analyzing test execution results.
- Execute tests, manage defects, reproduce customer issues, and collaborate with development, account teams, and customers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience.
- 3+ years of programming experience with Python.
- Networking domain experience with L2 or L3 protocols.
- Experience in networking automation and software quality assurance.
Nice to have
- CCIE certificate in Routing & Switching, Service Provider, or Data Center; experience with listed Cisco platforms.
- Experience with RDMA technologies, OpenFlow, Netconf, REST API, or network automation tools such as pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot framework, and Cisco NSO.
Pay
$167,700.00 to $245,200.00 USD base salary; $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 USD base salary (New York City Metro Area); $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 USD base salary (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state).
Tools
IOS-XR, Python, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, EVPN
AI focus
Develop web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to display and analyze test execution results.
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