Cisco
Senior Software Development Test Engineer (Remote)
$149K–$282K
San Jose, California, US · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years with a Master's degree.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or a Master's degree.
About the job
Develops automated testing strategies, frameworks, and infrastructure to evaluate Cisco Isovalent software agents across operating systems, architectures, virtual machines, containers, and cloud environments.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain automated tests and infrastructure for functionality, reliability, performance, and integration across supported environments.
- Analyze test results, identify defects, and work with engineering teams to troubleshoot and improve product quality.
- Integrate continuous testing into the software development lifecycle through production deployment.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience testing complex software products or systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience developing or implementing automated software testing, and working across the software development lifecycle to ship software into production.
Nice to have
- Experience with OpenShift and Rancher.
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure automation technologies.
Pay
$167,700.00 to $245,200.00 (base salary); $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 (base salary, New York City Metro Area); $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 (base salary, non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Tools
Unix, Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, Terraform, Golang
AI focus
Works on software agents used to secure workloads and AI infrastructure; the role focuses on testing those agents, not developing AI systems.
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