Software QA Engineer

Onsite San Jose, CA or San Francisco, CA

Who are we?

Cisco Spaces is the next gen indoor cloud location services platform from Cisco. Cisco Spaces transforms customer Wi-Fi into a powerful sensor, unlocking insights and trends from behavior of people and things, allowing the customers to make informed business decisions, optimize operations, and improve experiences.

As a Test Automation Software Engineer at Cisco Spaces, you will join a test automation team that is fully embedded within our Software Engineering team. We handle all types of testing projects for our cloud managed products, from nightly feature tests across the latest software to performance testing of all kinds. We run large scale testing to measure how small changes could impact our performance. Our automation framework is being used across software engineering and we continue to make it more intuitive.

A Day in the Life of a Test Automation Engineer

You may craft a testbed from the ground up and change topologies on the fly. You will have an in-house automation framework at your disposal as well as APIs to hook into for further automation. You will have the autonomy to craft and implement a solution as well as the knowledge and experience of team members to help you along the way.

You will get to learn some of the cool cloud technologies and automation tools for both UI and backend. Through testing you will gain firsthand knowledge about the performance and be able to guide the team in improving the quality before we release the product.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in testing of cloud applications, distributed systems preferably networking systems on virtualized and on-prem environments.
• Experience in developing Test Automation infrastructure and test suites preferably for cloud applications.
• Working experience in automation using Python and or UI automation using Selenium including working in CI/CD based environments with exposure to Git, Jenkins, PyTest, 3rd-Party Open-Source Test Frameworks.
• Strong motivation to work in an agile environment with a can-do attitude and minimal supervision.
• Hands-on knowledge of core network protocols like TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, VLANS, etc.
• Experience using development infrastructure tools such as Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, and JIRA and/or have experience with Database solutions (e.g, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, etc)

• Strong experience working in small, highly technical teams employing agile and scrum practices.
• Hands-on experience with Test Automation, Scale and Performance testing and related tools.
• Worked with virtualization or container technology, such as ESXi, Xen, Docker, etc.
• You have CCNA, AWS/ GCP/ Azure Cloud experience or equivalent certification.
• Hands-on experience with application logging, reporting and monitoring tools like Grafana.
• Experience with breaking down complex architectures, writing test plans using specifications, test planning, test designing and execution, implementing and maintaining quality test automation.
• Must be a great team player, result driven and have a high degree of accountability, dedication, and responsibility.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Meraki is looking for a full-stack Software Engineer to join the Hardware organization's Analytics & Data Science Team. As an engineer on the Analytics team, you will build the software that connects teams to the data they need to scale and grow. You will work with Data Scientists on the team and internal stakeholders across the department to understand current needs and gaps, design solutions, and bring them to production. You will partner with and learn from the Senior full-stack engineer on the team on all aspects of your work. In addition, you will develop relationships with all the teams that use the Analytics team’s data: Supply Chain, Quality Engineering, Product Management, and more.

Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, an analytical approach, excellent organizational skills, and a bias to action. You don't wait for change - you make it happen!

Meraki believes that the quality of our product is dependent on the quality of our employees. We place a high value on nurturing the growth and development of everyone on our team. We foster an open and supportive workplace where everybody is given the opportunity to succeed.

• Meraki devices collect incredible amounts of telemetry data (e.g. temperature, fan speed) that has the potential to aid everything from hardware quality to sustainability, but we have only just started exploring it. Help design and build the architecture for storing the data so Data Scientists can conduct analyses with it, and write APIs to make it easier for other teams to access this data/analysis.
• Our department has recently adopted a new hardware development tracking system, but keeping it updated is still a manual operation. Build an automated update system to save time and keep everyone in sync.
• The process through which Meraki defines serial numbers for products is becoming outdated as the company grows. Develop scripts to automate the process and minimize the chance for manual errors.

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience writing and maintaining quality code
• Experience in web front-end technologies (e.g. React) and back-end technologies (e.g. Golang, Python, Java, C++)
• Experience with Git
• The ability to understand, facilitate discussion, and work in partnership with other teams

Aren’t afraid of rolling your sleeves up and working in all layers of the stack

• Experience or willingness to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• 1+ years of testing experience (e.g. RSpec, JUnit, Jest, Robot)
• 1+ years of experience with web frameworks like (e.g. Flask, Spring)
• 1+ years of experience with container-based development, like Docker or Kubernetes

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That’s a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great leaders come from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Meraki is headquartered in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco, with beautiful views of the Oracle Ballpark and the Bay beyond. There are also locations in San Jose, Chicago, and Austin. All locations offer a generous benefits package.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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