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Cisco Routing & SD-WAN Engineering is responsible for building industry-leading networking solutions that power enterprise, service provider, and cloud connectivity worldwide. Our Quality Engineering team ensures every release meets the highest standards of reliability, scalability, and performance through automation-first testing and continuous quality practices. We work closely with software development, product management, customer support, and release engineering teams to deliver resilient networking platforms that our customers trust.
We foster a collaborative engineering culture where innovation, technical excellence, and customer obsession drive everything we build.
As an Engineering Manager – Test Engineering , you will lead a high-performing team responsible for quality engineering across Cisco's Routing and SD-WAN platforms. You will define the overall test strategy, drive automation initiatives, and establish engineering practices that improve software quality throughout the development lifecycle.
You will partner closely with development, product management, and release teams to shift quality left, strengthen automation, and ensure release readiness for complex networking products. Your leadership will directly influence the reliability, scalability, and customer experience of Cisco's networking portfolio.
Lead and mentor a team of software test engineers focused on Routing and SD-WAN platforms.
Define comprehensive test strategies covering functional, scale, performance, resiliency, interoperability, upgrade, and regression testing.
Drive the development of automation frameworks, reusable test libraries, and CI/CD-integrated testing pipelines.
Improve engineering efficiency through lab automation, topology orchestration, simulation, and infrastructure optimization.
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