Technical Lead, Cisco Meraki

• To be successful in this role, you will need to have motivation, curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and experience with telco technologies and automation as a breath
• Bachelor’s / Master of Science Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent or a related field, or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years of experience in Software Quality assurance with at least 5+ years of System testing or integration testing in large-scale routing, switching and wireless domains
• Proficient in SDWAN, security, Layer-2 (VLAN/802.1Q), IPv6, and Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT), with strong coding skills in Ruby or Python
• Experienced in working with cloud and containerized platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes, with a solid grasp of customer deployments for testing
• Skilled in building and maintaining CI/CD automation, traffic profile creation, and end-to-end testing of embedded devices
• Proven ability to direct a team of system test engineers, communicate effectively, and collaborate with team members

Desirable

• The MX System Test (SD-WAN) QA team takes pride in ensuring the end-to-end system of the Meraki MX and vMX product line is ready to use
• The team works on, but is not limited to, testing customer use cases, integration testing, scalability testing, stress and longevity testing
• This team is also responsible for qualifying security services such as malware detection, URL filtering, web security, IPS, threat modeling, SD-WAN and SaaS/IaaS security capabilities
• Our products are used in over a million networks and our customers rely on our products to serve tens of millions of people
• With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority
• Meraki is looking for a Software QA Technical Leader to join to support system test qualification of our SD-WAN product offerings
• Your responsibility includes crafting and building testbeds, creating and performing the integrated/application tests that resemble customer use-case for SD-WAN and Security solutions over physical, cloud, on-prem MX products and Meraki Dashboard, contributing to industry-leading technologies in the cloud ecosystem
• As a part of a geographically distributed team, you will collaborate with multiple Meraki engineering teams and customers around the globe to develop a fully-furnished test strategy
• In addition to driving test strategy, test planning and performing testing on large-scale networks you will provide technical leadership of entire System Test team to drive and implement new ideas to optimize and drive the team's impact
• Deep Product Understanding: Master customer use cases/workflows for MX and vMX solutions
• Collaborative Design: Engage in design discussions with product managers and developers, representing the QA team
• Strategic Testing: Build test strategy documents for MX features, ensuring comprehensive coverage with QA and development teams
• Automation & Innovation: Develop automation scripts for CI/CD, identify new testing tools, and enhance automation coverage
• Leadership & Mentorship: Lead the MX System Test team, mentor early career engineers, and cultivate innovative thinking

• APPLICATION WINDOW IS EXPECTED TO CLOSE ON 01/01/25