Senior Software Engineer - Solution Testing & Quality

The application window is expected to close on: 10/02/2026

Cisco’s Customer Experience (CX) organization is a fast-growing, innovative team dedicated to delivering an outstanding digital experience for customers and partners. The CX Platform team supports this mission by building scalable, AI-driven performance testing solutions for modern cloud-native technologies. Our high-impact quality engineering team operates across the US and India, fostering a fast-paced, collaborative, and data-driven culture grounded in ownership and accountability.

Joining us means contributing to seamless, high-performing SaaS and on-premises applications that accelerate customer success and drive Cisco’s agility in a dynamic market.

Design, script, and execute comprehensive load, stress, endurance, and benchmarking tests across UI, API, and backend layers to ensure system reliability. Develop and maintain detailed test plans and automation documentation to enable reproducibility. Leverage AI tools to accelerate test case generation and optimize performance scripts. Diagnose complex performance bottlenecks across Linux servers, networking hardware, and AWS infrastructure. Integrate automated test suites into Dev Ops pipelines to establish continuous performance guardrails and provide actionable insights to development teams.

Your success will be measured by improved system performance, early detection of regressions, and enhanced customer experience.

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years, or master's degree with 4+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Solution Testing, or Test Automation.

• Programming experience in Python or Java skills and experience in UI/API automation (Selenium, Playwright, Pytest, REST Assured).

• Experience in enterprise networking (TCP/IP, L2/L3, routing/switching) and integrated solution testing.

• Experience with Linux/Unix, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, Splunk, and CI/CD automation.

• Experience with AI/GenAI, LLMs, agentic workflows, or no-code testing.

• CCNA/CCNP or equivalent networking experience;
  Wireshark expertise.

• Experience with Cisco products and enterprise platforms, including device configurations, telemetry, data pipelines, and end-to-end customer workflows.

• Experience testing complex end-to-end customer and network workflows.

• Technical leadership, mentoring, and experience driving test strategy and release quality.

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $ to $ and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term…