Cisco Senior QA Automation Engineer San Jose, California Apply Now
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Who We Are
The Intersight Engineering group is a key part of Cisco's Compute portfolio, dedicated to developing Cisco Intersight—a cloud-based system management platform for Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) and other data center products. Intersight leverages sophisticated analytics and machine learning to provide actionable intelligence, enabling IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments. The platform offers both cloud-based and on-premise solutions, ensuring flexibility and scalability for diverse IT needs.
As a member of the Intersight engineering group, you will be at the forefront of innovation, working on groundbreaking technologies that shape the future of server management. You will collaborate with a dynamic team of experts, contributing to the development of solutions that have a significant impact on Cisco's extensive customer base and the broader IT industry.
Who You Are
A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software testing expertise, especially in cloud-native technologies, and the ability to work within a fast-moving, startup-like environment to deliver solid code that has a broad business impact. More than any other quality, we are looking for individuals driven by the challenge of solving unique and difficult technical problems, those who thrive and excel when given creative freedom, and those who aren't afraid to dive into new territory (technical or otherwise) and learn something new. If you are looking to excel in a fast-paced environment creating powerful network management solutions and want to make a significant long-lasting impact, this job's for you!
What You'll Do
As a Senior QA Automation Engineer on the team, you will be responsible for testing Cisco Intersight features to enable new Cisco Compute hardware platforms (that include Fabric Interconnect, Servers, Adapters, Storage controllers) and firmware, while providing continued support for all supported Cisco UCS platforms. You will use innovative testing approaches to ensure high quality and influence the team to do the same. Other responsibilities include:
- Understand new feature requirements, review feature functional specification and develop feature test plans and test cases and conduct peer review of the test plan.
- Automate UI and Rest API test cases to test the Intersight cloud application using Python and Selenium Webdriver.
- Set up and configure compute, server and storage hardware such as Blade Servers, Rack Servers and Fabric Interconnects in the lab to qualify the hardware and software features. Update Firmware on various Compute hardware as required for testing.
- Collaborate with development and execute the planned test cases and identify defects and verify fixes. Deliver the Feature with high quality and give a demo to stakeholders.
- Work as part of an agile scrum team and prepare and present your work with all stakeholders as part of Sprint Demos.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of relevant experience or Master's degree with 4+ years of relevant experience.
- 3+ years of experience automating test plans using Python.
- Experience in setup or configuration of datacenter hardware such as Blade Servers, Rack Servers, Fabric Interconnect, Chassis, Adapters, Storage Controller, Ethernet switch or FC switch.
- Experience working in Linux Operating System and working with VMWare Hypervisor.
- Experience working with Git or similar version control system.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Selenium Webdriver for UI automation.
- Experience in dev-test activities of a cloud-based network management software, including test scoping, planning, execution, test automation, and coordinating with other teams.
- Experience troubleshooting ethernet Switch and FC Switch connectivity issues in the lab, working with Ethernet adapters, storage controllers, BIOS, BMC.
- Experience working with Pure Storage arrays and Netapp Storage arrays.
- Experience Installing Operating systems on Servers.
- Experience working with docker or other containerization platforms, MongoDB.
- Experience running Kubernetes commands and check pod status, reviewing service logs.
- Experience working with Jenkins to establish CI/CD pipelines.
Why Cisco?
#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!
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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