General description:

- Development of test plan and test cases for new Cisco’s identity solution.

- Design of test topologies and building of test beds.

- Executing tests, tracking and logging of issues and driving till resolution with verification of bug fixes.

- Partner with other dev test members in test automation.

- Working closely with development engineer 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; review of PRD, SFS, Test plans, and other documentation.

- 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.

- Participate in cross-functional, cross-BU test effort.

Must have experience in IOS, Networking protocols like TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, Routing, 802.1x and tools.

- Experience with Identity Stores like Windows AD, LDAP, RSA/OTP and NAC desired

- Understanding or hands-on experience with AAA protocols like RADIUS & TACACS+

Must have experience in testing software in a distributed environment – Performance, scalability and solution testing.

- Hands on experience with Automation framework (for eg RFT, TestNG, Selenium etc) and scripting within Windows / Unix environment.

- Experience in analyzing customer/solution requirements, system test planning, test cases design, and execution.

- Experience with DBs like Oracle, MySql, DB2, Sybase and programming languages like JAVA, C, C++ is highly desirable.

- Candidate must possess excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills.

- Excellent teamwork and people skills.

- Appetite for creativity in test methodologies and productivity improvement.