Software Engineer Switching Test
 Cisco Systems, Inc. | |
paid time off
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 United States, California, San Jose | |
| 170 W Tasman Dr (Show on map) | |
 Jul 18, 2025 | |
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Meet the Team
Join Cisco's team of seasoned engineers working on Switching technology, the preferred choice for mission-critical networks in large enterprises. Collaborate with a vibrant technical community to develop some of the world's most widely deployed Enterprise Switches.
Your Impact
Document, maintain, and monitor testing progress reports and communicate status to team and management.Design test beds, identify necessary equipment, build topology maps, and estimate test efforts.Tackle problems failures on local systems and analyze results.Work with development team to debug and reproduce software defects.Apply verification and validation methods to improve and ensure the quality
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree+ 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or technical equivalent.Hands-on experience with Test automation with Python.Experience with real-time OS (e.g. Linux, Cisco IOS).Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals and networking protocols.Ability to diagnose software and network issues, interpret logs, and collaborate with development for the issue resolution and verification.
Preferred Qualifications:
In-depth Platform architecture and networking concepts.Proven experience on Forwarding and network features testing is highly desired.Hands-on experience on testing Networking technologies (Ethernet, VLAN, Layer 2/Layer 3, Multicast, MPLS, SDN, OpenFlow, Virtualization, Netconf, SNMP etc.)Hands-on familiarity with network test tools such as Ixia, Spirent
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