Job Description
You will be responsible for designing, automating, and qualifying customer use cases on the Cisco 8000 Platform (IOS-XR). Your work will involve generating test plans, dynamically prioritizing based on customer requirements, and leveraging the right technical expertise to drive results. This role goes beyond traditional testing—you will:
- Design and develop advanced test frameworks and automation tools to support large-scale test execution.
Execute test cases through automation, verifying defects and ensuring fixes are properly validated. - Leverage AI-powered tools and frameworks to improve test efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
- Build and integrate chatbots and AI assistants to support test execution, defect triaging, and on-demand knowledge retrieval.
- Apply Generative AI for productivity improvements, including test case generation, YAML/config creation, log analysis, and root-cause guidance.
- Proactively drive continuous improvements in test coverage, automation, and performance benchmarking, ensuring deployments meet customer scale and reliability expectations.
- Research and adopt domain-specific AI models and foundational representations for networking automation, model safety, and intelligent observability.
- Your passion for network automation, AI-driven productivity, and customer-first innovation will ensure smooth qualification and deployment of complex networking solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 1 + years of professional experience, OR Master’s degree
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Hands-on experience with AI-based productivity tools, chatbot frameworks, or automation assistants.
- Preferred Qualification: CCNA Knowledge of Netconf, REST APIs, gNMI, gRPC, and OpenConfig/YANG models.
- Familiarity with network automation tools (pyTest, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot Framework).
- Expertise in Linux operating systems and Bash/Unix shell scripting.
- Basic knowledge of Network protocols and technologies
