# Software Development Test Engineer

The application window is expected to close on: 12/17/2026Meet the team Cisco Networking’s Wireless Engineering System Integration Test team validates end-to-end enterprise Wi-Fi solutions, spanning access points, controllers, switches, and cloud platforms. We ensure high-performing, secure connectivity in complex, customer-representative environments. You will partner with cross-functional engineering teams, employing advanced automation and emerging AI tools to accelerate validation, improve failure analysis, and drive product excellence. Your impact As a Wi-Fi QA Engineer, you will own assigned test areas from requirements review through release. You will design and implement integration plans covering functionality, interoperability, performance, scale, and security. You will build and maintain Python-based automation integrated into our CI/CD pipelines to ensure rigorous, repeatable testing. When issues arise, you will perform deep-dive root cause analysis using packet captures, telemetry, RF data, and system diagnostics. You will spearhead the use of AI agents for test generation, log analysis, and defect triage, applying RAG and structured workflows to improve test coverage

- **Id**: 4106499
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-development-test-engineer-4>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Richardson, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T22:38:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T22:38:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7840
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 285
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0.091
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 155000
- **Max**: 256000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 256000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: yes
- **Rest API** — Optional: yes
- **Wireshark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T22:38:13Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T00:36:40Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 256000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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