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Meet the Team
Builds and validates next-generation secure networking solutions, especially VPN and SD-WAN.
Brings strong QA depth in IKEv1/IKEv2, IPsec, SSL/TLS, L2/L3 protocols, and tools like Ixia/Spirent.
Uses Python and REST API automation to improve test coverage, speed, and reliability.
Plays a key role in the bigger picture by protecting critical infrastructure and enabling trusted connectivity.
Supports adoption of modern security standards and best practices, including Post-Quantum Cryptography.
Team vibe is collaborative, hands-on, and high-energy, with exciting opportunities to solve complex security challenges.
Your Impact
Drive end-to-end quality assurance for secure networking solutions across VPN, SD-WAN, and next-generation security capabilities, ensuring products are resilient, compliant, and enterprise-ready.
Own validation scope across IKEv1/IKEv2, IPsec, SSL/TLS, L2/L3 protocols, and network behaviour to reduce release risk and protect customer environments.
Design and execute manual and automated test strategies using Python, REST APIs, and traffic-generation platforms such as Ixia and Spirent to improve coverage, speed, and defect detection.
Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to translate requirements into repeatable test frameworks and clear quality gates, so critical features ship with confidence.
Influence security readiness by validating modern standards and best practices, including Post-Quantum Cryptography, to future-proof customer deployments.
Deliver measurable impact by preventing production issues, accelerating release cycles, and strengthening trust in business-critical connectivity; success looks like high product stability, faster test execution, and fewer customer-reported defects.
Grow technical depth while solving complex real-world security challenges in a collaborative, high-energy team environment, making the role both high-ownership and highly rewarding.
Using different AI tool fast execution and automation
Minimum Qualifications -
1-3 years of Industry experience. Hands on experience on End-to-End testing in Networking ,Security ,SDWAN, area and Python Automation
Preferred Qualifications
Networking (L2/L3)
Security VPN ( IPsec/IKE)
Python
AI tool usage for automation and execution
Networking tool like Ixia and Spirent
SDWAN testing
Why Cisco?
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.
