Senior Development Test (DevTest) Engineer – Automation Framework Development Consumer TelePresence

Seeking an experienced Automation Framework Engineer with expertise in building end to end automation framework for distributed systems to join our Consumer TelePresence Unit of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group (ETG).

TelePresence is a virtual presence experience, using advanced technology to create a truly in-person virtual conference. TelePresence is an example of how Cisco changes the way we live, work, play, and learns.

The role demands excellent technical and collaboration skills. This person will evaluate, analyze various tools and techniques suitable for automation of different components in TelePresence solution. Role is to create automation framework and then influence the development test team to adopt to it for their feature/functional, stress, performance and system test.

Responsibilities:
- Design TelePresence Automation framework for endpoints, web services, sip call control, billing and end to end video call.
- Build and deploy framework in various development test beds.
- Partner with groups running alpha, beta and production Consumer TelePresence exchange.
- Mentor new members and collaborate with other team members.
- Working closely with development engineer, other groups within Cisco to reproduce, analyze and debug internal test failures as well as customer found defects.
- Interacting with marketing and development engineer to understand market/customer/product requirements to ensure that the delivered product meets specifications.
- Initiate and participate in organizational efforts to improve overall group productivity and test effectiveness. Contribute to overall test strategies development, resource allocation planning, task/project scheduling, and test process definition/improvement.

Requirements:
- 15+ years experience in test automation framework for a large scale, distributed system.
- Must be able to strategize and automate tests at component level and mesh them together at a solution level.
- Expert in TCL, Perl, C, C++, Java, JavaScript.
- Experience in GUI tools like Selenium, WebKing.
- Experience in IP based voice and video product test automation is a big plus.
- Experience in high level embedded system GUI interfaces is highly desirable.
- Experience in testing TelePresence or SIP video endpoints is definitely a plus.
- Must be an excellent mentor, collaborator, communicator and highly results oriented.
- Excellent teamwork and people skills.
- Appetite for creativity in test methodologies and productivity improvement.

Educational Background Recommended:
-MSEE/CS combined with 10-12 years of related experience, or BSEE/BSCS combined with 12-15 yrs related experience.