Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Onsite
Meet the Team / Who You'll Work With
The Cisco IOS XR Routing Test Team ensures the reliability, scalability, performance, and resiliency of Cisco’s carrier-grade routing platforms. We work closely with software developers, architects, product managers, and customer-facing teams to deliver comprehensive, end-to-end validation across platforms, Optics, Layer 0, Layer 1 optical, routing, subscriber-management, and network-service technologies for service providers, hyperscalers, Optical and web-scale customers operating some of the world’s largest and most demanding networks. Exciting career opportunities open for enthusiastic and experienced Software professionals in India
Our team values technical depth, automation-first engineering, continuous learning, collaborative problem-solving, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted development practices.
Your Impact
Cisco provides you an excellent opportunity to take your career aspirations forward. You will bring your unique talents to the group that works on Cisco's routing technology, which large enterprises now consider to be the transport medium of choice for critically important networks. In your role as a Software Test Engineer, you will own the quality validation of IOS XR routing – Platform infra, Optics, Layer 0, Layer 1 capabilities. You will design test strategies, develop automation, validate complex customer scenarios, investigate system-level failures, and provide data-driven release recommendations.
Your work will help ensure that Cisco delivers stable, scalable, and production-ready networking solutions. You will also mentor junior engineers, improve test frameworks, and use modern AI-assisted tools to accelerate engineering and solving workflows.
What You Will Do
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Expectations
The successful candidate will operate as an experienced individual contributor who can independently own a significant routing or BNG feature area, develop production-quality automation, lead complex technical investigations, identify product and test risks, and provide evidence-based release recommendations.
The engineer is also expected to influence test strategy, improve engineering practices, mentor junior team members, and use AI-assisted tools responsibly while maintaining security, accuracy, and engineering accountability.
Why Cisco
At Cisco, you will work on technologies that power some of the world’s largest networks. You will collaborate with experienced engineers, solve complex technical problems, and contribute to products with global impact.
Cisco provides an inclusive environment, opportunities for continuous learning, and the ability to grow across networking, cloud, automation, and AI technologies.
#WeAreCisco
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.
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