Test Development Engineer

Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success.

Test Development Engineering- Enable scalable innovation, quality and productivity through: connecting the product lifecycle with the practical application of technology, accelerating roles and process evolution, driving engineering collaboration and talent development and providing efficient centralized technical services.

- Work as part of product team to support new product test development and provide sustaining test support throughout the product life cycle.. - Understand product requirements to come up with test strategy and test plans to meet quality, reliability and cost goals. - Engage with the product teams to gain in depth system hardware knowledge to influence test strategy and/or DfX (Design for Test/Manufacturing/Reliability) changes. - Opportunity to learn about test for high-speed system hardware, e.g. CPU, memory/cache, IO, Industry Standard busses, DDRx memories. - Analysis of designs for testability, and design margin robustness. - Get experience in test and measurement equipment including High End Oscilloscope, Logic analyzer, traffic generators and influence equipment vendors to support leading edge technologies. - Participate in cross-functional Defect Reduction teams from engineering and supply chain to resolve product failures during engineering and manufacturing test processes. - Opportunity to do lab bring-up/debug for products and components and design lab experiments to do root cause investigation of issues. - Provide analysis of manufacturing test data, and look for areas to improve quality, reliability, and cost. - Develop web services/applications and algorithms to automate test life cycle management.

**Minimum Qualifications** - Desired Degree: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering - Blend knowledge of hardware, software, and systems architecture to develop software modules used to test Cisco products. - Possess knowledge of source control tools, modular and reusable coding methods to develop library modules used by other engineers to test Cisco products. - Possess knowledge of applied statistics, analytics, and data visualization tools. - Possesses knowledge about Web services/applications and database development. **Desired Skills** - Possess direct knowledge of Python or R statistical software environments are a big plus - Possesses direct knowledge of Java and J2EE/Java EE (including servlets, JSP, JSF, JDBC) is a big plus