Senior Network Testing & Systems Engineer – L2/L3 Routing & Switching

Meet the team Join the Cisco IIoT team to work on product development for industrial switching and routing solutions that transform industrial operations. The team builds secure, scalable technologies across industrial networking, edge computing, and IoT security, helping customers in manufacturing, energy, transportation, and smart cities improve efficiency through real-time insights. Cisco offers software engineers a unique experience that blends the scale and resources of a global organization with a startup-like culture, strong collaboration, and broad growth opportunities. Your Impact: Design and develop system‑level test tools to validate Cisco IIoT products in customer‑simulated environments. Create and maintain Cisco Validated Profiles for end‑to‑end IIoT solutions. Analyze and reproduce customer‑reported issues to identify root causes and drive resolution. Collaborate with multi-functional and global teams to review requirements and design documents, ensuring testability and automation readiness. Improve test efficiency by incorporating insights from customer issues, advanced tools, and innovative testing approaches. Apply AI/ML techniques to enhance test automation and manual testing processes. Support continuous learning within the test team by staying ahead of with networking and testing technologies. Contribute to knowledge retention through structured documentation and equipment archiving. Minimum Qualifications (Must have) We are seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 8+ years of experience in test automation, including hands‑on expertise in designing, building, and maintaining robust test suites. Strong proficiency in writing high‑quality automation test code. Proven hands-on expertise in networking, including routers, switches, L2/L3 routing and switching technologies, VLANs, OSPF, and other key network protocols Practical knowledge of scripting languages such as Python. Experience using AI/ML tools to enhance network infrastructure support, testing efficiency, and productivity. Proven ability to perform performance and scale testing for new platforms and features. Hands‑on exposure to controllers and network management systems, with a focus on innovation and test acceleration. Preferred Qualifications (Optional) Expertise in wireless networking technologies and solutions will Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.