Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Hybrid, RTP, NC

Responsibilities

• Develop a strong understanding of Cisco Meraki MX use cases and workflows in customer environments.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and development teams to represent QA in requirements and design discussions.
• Create and execute test strategies, reporting results and metrics to ensure feature quality.
• Build and maintain automation scripts to support CI/CD and improve regression test coverage.
• Drive innovation by applying AI-driven ideas and contributing to feature development with a Test Driven Development approach.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree, combined with 5 years of related experience in Software Development Engineering in routing or SD-WAN domains, or Master's Degree of Science Degree in Computer Science, combined with 3 years of related experience or PhD, combined with 0 year of related experience.
• 2+ years of Automation/Development experience.
• Ability to write feature development code with one of the programming languages such as: Ruby, Python, C, C++, Golang and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and Gen-AI prompting techniques.
• Knowledge of SDWAN, Security, Layer-2(VLAN/802.1Q), and Layer-3 (BGP/IP/OSPF/VPN/IPSec/NAT) and are at ease to ramp up quickly on new technologies and concepts.
• Experience with traffic generators such as TRex, Linux Tools, Spirent, IXIA, etc and ability to explore tools and techniques to improvise testing.
• AI usage day-in and day-out.
• Feature bug fixing with better quality in Firmware or Backend or UI.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management.
• Research of applications and Framework experience - Obtained patent(s), Published White paper / Yellow paper on embedded solutions.
• Experience with developing frameworks for CI/CD pipelines.
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• Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
• The starting salary range posted for this position is $126,500.00 to $182,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
• U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exe

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Additional Information

The application window is expected to close on: 08/04/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received . This is a hybrid role at the RTP, NC office. Meet the Team The Cisco MX (Cloud-managed security and SD-WAN) QA team takes pride in ensuring the end-to-end system of the Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst 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 all through a single Dashboard. 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.

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