The application window is expected to close on: 2/12/2025 Meet the Team At Cisco, we are a global leader in networking and IT, driving innovation and redefining how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Our mission is to shape the future of the internet by crafting unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners. We are committed to encouraging a diverse and partnership environment where everyone can thrive and encourage our collective success. Your Impact As a CVT Solution Qualification Engineer, you will collaborate with dedicated, dynamic, passionate, and complementary team members to work on the qualification and automation of influential technologies, XR platforms, and solutions for deployment in high-end Cisco Web and Service Provider customers, impacting an endless number of users worldwide. You will be responsible for: * Crafting, automating, configuring, and qualifying customer use cases based on IOS-XR for ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, and 8000 platforms. This includes generating test plans and dynamically prioritizing tasks based on customer demands, maximizing the right technical expertise and skills in each area. * Designing and developing innovative test frameworks and tools to support the test execution environment, as well as develop web-based GUIs that use analytics and machine learning to thoughtfully display and analyze execution results. * Driving test cases both manually and through automation, raising, tracking, prioritizing, and verifying defects and fixes. * Proactively seek continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, optimizing performance and configuration dimensioning. * Reproduce customer issues in internal test labs as requested by the customer support team, generate test execution. Minimum Qualifications: * Bachelor’s degree in computer science with 7+ years of professional experience or master’s degree in computer science with 4+ years of professional experience * Experience with Networking Automation and Software Quality Assurance, protocol testing, and supporting Web/Service-provider customers * Experience with routing hardware/platforms/forwarding architecture and networking technologies * Hands on experience using Python and/or GoLang Preferred Qualifications: * Certificate in CCIE (Routing & Switching / Service Provider / Data Center) * Experience on the following platforms: ASR9K, NCS5500, NCS5000, NCS540/NCS560, NCS6K, CRS, 8000 * Experience in OpenFlow, Netconf & REST API * Background in network automation tools like pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot framework and Cisco NSO * Experience in configuration/fixing Protocols: ISIS/OSPF, BGP, L2/L3 VPN, EVPN, SegmentRouting, IPv6, MPLS-LDP/RSVP-TE, Multicast, SNMP, Telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Netconf & OpenConfig Yang Models #WeAreCisco #WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all. Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best. We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do! Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us! Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.