Senior Wireless Automation Test Engineer - Python/C/C++

7 - 12 years

10 - 15 Lacs

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About the role:

As a Senior Wireless Automation Test Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building high-performance software for Ciscos wireless platforms. Your focus will be on software development and testing crafting, designing, implementing, and optimizing features across the wireless stack and contributing to platform capabilities. You will be responsible to drive Automated continuous Integration and continuous delivery framework for world class Cisco Wireless products.

You will collaborate across hardware, firmware, and cloud teams and bring a software-first mentality to solving real-world wireless challenges. Experience with Generative AI-assisted coding tools will help you accelerate development and improve engineering impact.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Review product requirements document and understand the customer use case.
  • Work with senior software architect to help in designing and drafting software functional specifications for a particular feature.
  • Work with senior software development engineers to develop the feature and participate in early unit test and integration test.
  • Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases for Cisco wireless products and solutions.
  • Perform functional, regression, performance, and interoperability testing for Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) products and features.
  • Automate use cases using Pythons or Ruby.
  • Design, develop, and maintain robust Automated CICD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Development) framework for wireless platforms (access points, controllers, Cloud based products).
  • Analyze and troubleshoot complex wireless networking issues, identifying root causes and driving resolution.
  • Collaborate with development, product management, and support teams to define test requirements and quality metrics.
  • Participate in innovative Software test initiatives.
  • Share your knowledge by giving brown-bags, tech talks, and evangelizing engineering standard methodologies.
  • Accountable for the stability of our product with a high customer focus.
  • Work on other quality assurance activities such as reproduce customer issues, scale and performance test, end to end system testing and interop testing.
  • Leverage Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cursor) to improve efficiency, accelerate prototyping, and promote code quality.
  • Collaborate with hardware, test, and cloud teams to ensure flawless integration and performance across the system.
  • Contribute to automated validation frameworks and test tools to support CI/CD and system integration testing.

Required Skills:

  • 7+ years of experience in software development and Testing
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Wi-Fi standards and protocols (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax), including security (WPA2/WPA3, 802.1X)
  • Strong networking knowledge and Cisco switches / routers
  • Working experience in core network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, Radius)
  • Experience in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Jenkins, Xpresso, Docker, Jira, GitHub, Gerrit, Terraform, Ansible).
  • Experience in deploying wireless solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including integration with cloud networking and management services
  • Exposure to test process, test tools, test automation framework, CI/CD pipeline and end to end system validation
  • Strong programming skills in Python and C/C++
  • Knowledge of software development process and quality assurance process
  • Working experience in various OS like Windows OS, Linux, Android and IOS
  • Consistent track record to adopt and use Generative AI tools optimally for development and debugging
  • Document test results, file detailed bug reports, and track issue resolution.
  • Stay up to date with emerging wireless technologies, standards, and industry best practices
  • Strong analytical skills with a focus on design correctness, performance, and maintainability
  • Excellent teamwork and communication across multi-disciplinary teams

Bonus points for:

  • Certifications such as CCNP Wireless, CWNA, or equivalent are a plus
  • Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent are highly desirable
  • Experience in customer-facing roles, presenting at industry conferences, or contributing to standards bodies (e.g., IEEE, Wi-Fi Alliance).
  • Familiarity with big data analytics, telemetry, and AI/ML-driven network management.
  • Experience with large-scale, multi-site wireless network deployments.
  • Familiarity with IoT connectivity, wireless mesh, and emerging wireless standards.
  • Experience with API testing and automated monitoring/alerting in production environments
  • Experience with performance and scalability testing of cloud applications.

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