Cisco
Senior QA 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.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in STEM.
About the job
Designs, automates, configures, and qualifies customer networking use cases on IOS XR platforms, while developing test tools and validating customer issues.
What you'll do
- Create test plans and automate and execute customer use cases; raise, track, prioritize, and verify defects.
- Develop test frameworks, tools, and web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to analyze test results.
- Improve test coverage and automation, reproduce customer issues in test labs, 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.
- Networking domain experience with L2 or L3 protocols such as ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, or EVPN.
- Experience in networking software quality assurance.
Nice to have
- CCIE certificate in Routing & Switching, Service Provider, or Data Center; experience on listed Cisco platforms.
- Experience with RDMA technologies, OpenFlow, Netconf, REST API, network automation tools, or UNIX/Linux and shell scripting.
Pay
$167,700.00 to $245,200.00 USD (salary range; not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits); $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 USD (salary range, New York City Metro Area); $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 USD (salary range, non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Tools
IOS XR, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, EVPN, pyATS
AI focus
Develop web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to display and analyze test execution results.
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