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The organization in India deals with development of High-End Routers like ASR9000, NCS5500, NCS540, NCS560, NCS5700 and Optical products like NCS1010, NCS1014, NCS1004, NCS4000 and NCS2000 series.\nYour Impact:\nDelivering software with benchmarked quality and customer happiness, thereby enabling faster customer adoption.\nUses expertise and creativity for innovative product recommendation and solutions. Applies knowledge of Cisco's business strategies.\nAutomated End-to-End System/Solution test experience needed.\nEngage in debugging complex network problems and define solutions.\nWork on Network automation, algorithmic thinking and Analytics applications derived from customer use cases\nWork on continuous improvement and transformation. 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We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. 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