Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET

Cisco

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test ensuring quality for Cisco's cloud-managed products. Collaborating with teams to enhance features and automation testing practices.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeRTP • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $137,000 - $200,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoLinuxPythonRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop a strong understanding of Cisco Meraki MX use cases and workflows in customer environments.
Collaborate with Product Managers and development teams to represent QA in requirements and design discussions.
Create and execute test strategies, reporting results and metrics to ensure feature quality.
Build and maintain automation scripts to support CI/CD and improve regression test coverage.
Drive innovation by applying AI-driven ideas and contributing to feature development with a Test Driven Development approach.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree, combined with 7 years of related experience in Software Development Engineering in Test, or in routing or SD-WAN domains, or Master's Degree of Science Degree in Computer Science, combined with 4 years of related experience or PhD, combined with 1 year of related experience.
3+ years of Automation/Development experience.
Proficiency in writing quality feature development code with one of the programming languages such as: Ruby, Python, C, C++, Golang and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and Gen-AI prompting techniques.
In-depth knowledge of SDWAN, Security, Layer-2(VLAN/802.1Q), and Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT) and are at ease to ramp up quickly on new technologies and concepts.
Good understanding of traffic generators such as TRex, Linux Tools, Spirent, IXIA, etc and ability to explore tools and techniques to improvise testing.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

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Hard Skills & Tools

AutomationTest Driven DevelopmentProgramming languagesRubyPythonCC++GolangAI coding toolsGen-AI prompting techniques

Soft Skills

CollaborationInnovationCommunication

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMaster's Degree in Computer SciencePhD