Job ID: 2005644

 Join our Quality Engineering (QE) Team to define, scale, and lead quality strategy across frontend, full-stack, and backend systems for Cisco Cloud Control —Cisco’s AI-powered, cloud-native platforms. As a QE Engineer, you will operate at the system and platform level, influencing architecture, testability, and engineering standards across multiple teams.

You will serve as a technical leader for quality, partnering with senior engineers and architects across Frontend, Platform, AI/ML, and SRE organizations.

Your Impact

As a Staff QE Automation Engineer, you will:

• Define and evolve the end-to-end quality strategy across UI, API, and backend platforms.

• Architect scalable, reusable automation frameworks used across multiple teams.

• Lead validation of frontend and full-stack architectures, including microfrontends and shared UI platforms.

• Influence API contracts, service boundaries, and testability during design phases.

• Drive end-to-end user experience validation across complex, multi-service workflows.

• Establish testing strategies for event-driven and asynchronous systems (Kafka).

• Define standards for multi-tenant data validation and isolation.

• Partner with CI/CD and platform teams to embed quality gates, reliability metrics, and observability.

• Identify systemic quality risks and drive cross-team remediation plans.

• Mentor and guide junior QE engineers, raising the bar for automation quality.

• Represent QE in architecture reviews, technical deep dives, and release readiness forums.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in QE, SDET, or Automation Engineering, with platform-level ownership.

• Expert-level programming skills in Python and/or Go.

• Proven experience influencing quality across frontend, full-stack, and backend systems.

• Deep expertise in UI, API, and distributed systems testing.

• Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven systems, and SaaS platforms.

• Experience designing CI/CD quality strategies at scale.

• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces.

• Strong technical leadership and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience defining QE strategy for microfrontend platforms.

• Exposure to AI/ML platform testing and validation.

• Experience with Kubernetes-based production systems.

• Deep understanding of security, identity, and tenant isolation testing.

• History of driving org-level quality improvements.

• Experience collaborating with architects and senior technical leadership.

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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. 

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