Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco

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About The Position

Cisco SDWAN focuses on simplifying and securing enterprise WANs, enabling seamless cloud connectivity, automating network operations, and ensuring optimal application performance through advanced SD-WAN solutions.
Our Team works on Cisco SD-WAN solutions that help enterprises build resilient, secure, and scalable wide area networks for distributed branch, cloud, and hybrid environments. The focus is on simplifying network operations through centralized management and automation, improving application and user experience with intelligent connectivity, and strengthening security with SASE-ready, zero-trust architecture. The team enables customers to connect sites, users, and cloud workloads with better visibility, performance, and operational efficiency.
Your Impact
Define and drive test strategy and validation architecture for the SDWAN controller/Dashboard features managing Cisco Secure SDWAN Solution.
As part of this SDWAN controller test team, you will be focusing on the tests validating Cisco SDWAN controller features like configuration, policy management, high availability multi-tenancy and UI/UX features on SDWAN secure routers.
Design and evolve scalable test frameworks, test automation using Python/Restapi, and validation pipelines for controller-based solutions.
Establish end-to-end test strategies covering functional, system, scale, application performance, resiliency, security and administration.
Collaborate with engineering leaders, product management, hardware, and TAC teams to define quality goals, test scope, and execution strategies.
Lead customer demos and technical presentations to showcase product capabilities and articulate solution value.
Represent the test organization in cross-functional forums to influence release decisions, risk assessment, and quality metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSEE/MSEE/CS) or a equivalent technical discipline.
• 10-14 years of relevant experience in testing NMS products / SDWAN controllers and Automation.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, from Requirements analysis, Testbed bring up, Test Plan creation, execution and release validation.
• Worked in testing of the SD-WAN control and management plane, including multi-tenancy architectures, clustering for high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Strong experience in developing test plans based on customer use cases and functional and Product requirements.
• Experience with High Availability/Redundancy, Layer 2/3 security concepts including IPSec, TLS, DTLS, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and certificate management.
• 6+ years working experience of automation skills using Python, Selenium and REST API
• Expert-level proficiency in root cause analysis using advanced debugging techniques, kernel logs, and system traces.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux operating systems and experience with virtualization technologies like KVM, ESXi.
• Proficiency with network traffic generators such as Ixia, Spirent, and analyzers like Wireshark.
• Proficiency with GIT for version control.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Proven mentorship capabilities and a passion for developing talent.
• Worked on validation of modern configuration models, including YANG, NETCONF, and RESTCONF.

Nice To Haves

• SD-WAN Vendor Experience: Specific experience with major SD-WAN solutions (e.g., Cisco Viptela/Meraki, VMware VeloCloud, Fortinet, Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN).
• Cloud Networking: Familiarity with cloud networking concepts and integration with SD-WAN (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Database knowledge, Devops tools, distributed systems architecture.
• Configuration Management Tools: Experience with tools like Ansible.
• Agile Methodologies: Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Exposure or hands-on experience with AI-based automation tools of SDWAN controllers/Applications.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive test strategy and validation architecture for the SDWAN controller/Dashboard features managing Cisco Secure SDWAN Solution.
• As part of this SDWAN controller test team, you will be focusing on the tests validating Cisco SDWAN controller features like configuration, policy management, high availability multi-tenancy and UI/UX features on SDWAN secure routers.
• Design and evolve scalable test frameworks, test automation using Python/Restapi, and validation pipelines for controller-based solutions.
• Establish end-to-end test strategies covering functional, system, scale, application performance, resiliency, security and administration.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, product management, hardware, and TAC teams to define quality goals, test scope, and execution strategies.
• Lead customer demos and technical presentations to showcase product capabilities and articulate solution value.
• Represent the test organization in cross-functional forums to influence release decisions, risk assessment, and quality metrics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level