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# Software QA Engineer

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Durham, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $126,500.0 - $182,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Computing Platforms, VoIP, Computer Networks, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Ethernet, Firmware, IPv6, Multicasting, Netconf, Simple Network Management Protocols, Software Engineering, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Wireshark, Virtual Local Area Networks, Virtualization Technology, Wi-Fi Technology, Computer Network Technologies, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F32BBA29F3A541C09571F155E9E4EB9B/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree, combined with 3 years of related experience, or Master's in Computer Science combined with 2 years of related experience.
 * 3+ years of experience in Wi-Fi QA and testing technologies/tools.
 * Experience in computer networking (IPv6, VLANs, DHCP, TCP, UDP, VoIP).
 * Experience in 802.11 wireless standards, channels, and specs on 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz.
 * Experience in analyzing Wireshark packet captures (wired and wireless) to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues.
 * Experience in crafting and delivering automation and manual and system-level QA test plans., * Understanding of Platform architecture and networking concepts.
 * Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts and applications.
 * Experience on Forwarding and network features testing.
 * Experience or understanding of Networking technologies (Ethernet, Multicast, Virtualization, Netconf, SNMP etc.).
 * Familiarity with network test tools such as iPerf, Ixchariot, Ixia, and Spirent.

## Description

* Support firmware engineers in implementing test cases, understanding test results, reproducing and investigating bugs.
 * Collaborate with Functional and Release engineers on the QA team to plan release timelines.
 * Own test topologies and testbeds from topology-diagram inception, to proof of concept testbeds that scale well, all the way to a production test in our release cycle.
 * Collaborate with Software teams (Platform, Features, etc) as well as Hardware and Product Management teams to develop reliable and scalable testing processes for existing and upcoming features.


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