Job Description

Software Automation Engineer

What You'll Do

The Cisco IoT Control Center team is looking for a strong and collaborative Software automation Engineer with energy and enthusiasm in the IoT, Device Provisioning, Connected Car and Security space

This is a highly technical engineer role in our Quality Engineering team. As a member of QE team you'll have opportunity to innovate, develop exciting test frameworks, tools, CI/CD processes, test plans. All team members play a pivotal role in the success of the product, with everyone sharing a voice in the Product Quality.

Who You'll Work With

As a Software QA Engineer you will be a core member of a team composed of highly skilled individuals who are comfortable working in dynamic and technically challenging environments. Our team is a highly performant group that has successfully delivered multiple enterprise-grade products and are involved in all stages of product life cycle from conception to development, go-to-market, and ongoing support of our customers. In this highly visible role, you will collaborate with our customers, internal stakeholders, Technical Leaders, Developers and other software engineers as part of a cross-functioning team. Partner with other engineering teams to define, design and deliver innovative solutions.

Who You Are

You have a Computer Science or Engineering degree and passionate about development, QA and System level automation and have excellent problem solving abilities.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on technical experience in testing Java based application along with Infrastructure aspects.

Good knowledge of apps deployed in cloud native environment is a must.

You will be responsible in developing Test frameworks, Test tools, and have the ability to automate primarily using Java.

Experienced in Development, testing Application and infra code, and participate in code/technical reviews

Identifying and resolving anomalies during test on various software and system-level platforms

Identifying and implementing tests associated to required software modifications

Working with teams in an agile development environment with distributed team members in different time-zones

Working with software development peers, subject matter experts, and wireless engineers

Providing on-call diagnostics/troubleshooting support for features developed

You have high regards to test-driven development and ensuring all production quality code is well-designed and tested.

You will mentor/coach other QA/developers and define best practices for the platform.

You are a great communicator, articulate your thoughts and strategy clearly and always seek to get buy-in before implementation

Required Skills/Qualifications

experience in testing enterprise grade/highly scalable, distributed applications, products & services

Excellent programming experience in Core Java Programming, SQL, PL/SQL & NoSQL

Experience in Java, JDBC, Java Script, CSS, XML, JSON , Web Services (SOAP and RESTFUL), Microservices

Experience in testing messaging framework like Pulsar/Kafka/RabbitMQ

Experience in Docker, Kubernetes application testing

Experience in automation of Micro Services based on Service Oriented Architectures (REST) APIs

Experience in cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud

)

Proven ability in designing automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver/ IDE, Grid, Maven/Gradle, Log4j

Experience in working with Build Systems like ANT, Maven and CI/CD systems like Jenkins

Must have knowledge on DevOps

Experienced in White Box, Black Box, Functional, System, Regression, Integration, GUI testing using both Manual and Automation Techniques

Experience using Source Control tools like Subversion (SVN), GIT and GITHUB

Strong knowledge of working in Mac, windows, UNIX/Linux

Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps using Quality Center, JIRA, and Confluence

Possess strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication and presentation skills, self - starter, quick learner and team player

Docker/Kubernetes experience in building and deploying micro services

Experience in performance engineering/testing

Availability and capability to provide on-call diagnostic/troubleshooting support for features developed

Excellent Interpersonal skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, Network programming experience is a plus

Excellent communication skills for peer-to-peer and peer-to-leadership communication

Flexible team-oriented attitude; able to adapt to changing requirements

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have

access

to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.


Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco's Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.


Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:


.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;


1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;


1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.


For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.