(Senior) Software Engineer (Software Development Engineer in Test - SDET)
At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works.
Meraki MS is an enterprise-grade line of network switches that are entirely managed from the cloud. Our mission is to bring Meraki simplicity to the network switching market, leaving our users delighted with ease of install and with our robust monitoring to tackle problems and answer questions about their networks. We are looking for a test automation engineer who is as passionate about quality as we are. Your contributions will have a direct impact on the success of our team’s mission, not to mention our customers’ lives.
We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points below. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great teams come from a diverse set of backgrounds.
Example projects of a Test Automation Engineer:
- Articulating test plans and prioritizing them for automation
- Building out our suite of automated tests for our feature set
- Assisting in the development of our testing framework
- Integrate end to end tests into build pipelines
- Create dashboards for monitoring and alerts around test failures
- Develop and evangelize good testing practices
You are ideal for this role if…
- Proficient with writing quality code (automation test code)
- You have experience with scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, and/or Java.
- You have 3+ years hands-on experience building and maintaining test suites, preferably with open-source frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, etc.
- You are a proven technical communicator
- You are an enthusiastic advocate for testing best practices
- You use data and metrics to inform decisions
- You are able to weigh technical trade-offs against business goals
- You hold deep technical curiosity
Bonus points if you have the following:
- Experience with Rails
- Experience with Postgres or other RDBMS
- Experience with CI systems
- Experience with Docker and/or other container technologies
- Experience with automation frameworks such as Cypress, Cucumber, Selenium, Mobile testing frameworks, etc.
- Familiarity with Gerrit, Jenkins, and GitLab
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