Quality Engineer

123 Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited in Bengaluru seeks a Customer Quality Engineer to act as the technical authority for top customers, bridging Engineering, Global Supply Chain and Customer Experience to drive proactive quality strategies and data-driven improvements.

You will lead high-impact failure investigations, coordinate cross-functional actions (ECO/PCN/Field Notice) and influence executive stakeholders with deep RCA capabilities to ensure reliability and performance across Cisco’s

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related with 8+ years of related experience, or a Master’s Degree or related with 6+ years of related experience.
• Extensive experience in Product or Customer Quality Engineering with deep understanding of product architecture and failure mechanisms.
• Ability to analyze upstream and downstream impacts of technical changes and provide strategic recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive a customer-centric hardware quality engagement model for strategic accounts with end-to-end visibility on quality matters.
• Lead monthly external hardware quality performance deep dives with actionable metrics and RCA discussions for key customer stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-functional communications regarding corrective actions (ECO, PCN, Field Notice) between Account Teams, CX, Operations, Quality, and Engineering.
• Lead field remediation actions for high-impact events in key customer networks and monitor in-service and early-life failure activity.
• Implement and monitor field mitigation agreements across global service depots and networks to minimize risk and downtime.
• Apply advanced statistical methods and data analytics to uncover actionable insights and perform customer site audits to resolve installation challenges.
• Partner with design and quality engineering teams to maintain deep knowledge of product architecture and failure trends.
• Provide in-region escalation support for critical issues and execute rapid field actions to resolve priority quality problems.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Statistical Analysis

Root Cause Analysis

Stakeholder Influence

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Master’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

Role Summary

As a Customer Quality Engineer (CQE) at Cisco, you will serve as a high-level technical authority and strategic partner for our most critical customers. In this role, you will bridge the gap between the Engineering, Global Supply Chain, and Customer Experience organizations, driving proactive quality strategies as the customer’s advocate, leading high-impact failure investigations, and influencing executive stakeholders through data-driven insights to ensure the reliability and performance of Cisco’s global install base.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Quality Engagement: Develop and drive a customer-centric hardware quality engagement model for strategic accounts, ensuring end-to-end visibility and transparency on all quality-related matters.
• Executive Technical Leadership: Lead monthly external hardware quality performance deep dives, providing actionable metrics, comprehensive issue summaries, and expert-level Root Cause Analysis (RCA) discussions for key customer stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Coordinate complex customer communications regarding corrective and customer mitigation actions (ECO, PCN, Field Notice), serving as the primary liaison between Account Teams, CX, Operations, Quality, and Engineering for these issues.
• Field Mitigation & Remediation: Lead field remediation actions for high-impact events in key customer’s networks, monitor customer’s in-service and early-life failure activity, and execute tailored mitigation strategies for large-scale, complex network environments.
• Operational Integrity: Implement and track field mitigation agreements, including rigorous monitoring across global service depots and networks to minimize customer risk and downtime.
• Proactive Analytics: Apply advanced statistical methods and data analytics to uncover actionable insights, drive proactive issue identification, and conduct customer site audits to resolve installation and operational challenges.
• Engineering Integration: Partner with quality and design engineering teams to maintain deep, expert-level knowledge of product architecture, failure mechanisms, and quality trends across the customer install base.
• Escalation Management: Provide in-region support for critical escalations, assessing technical impact and executing rapid, effective field actions to resolve high-priority quality issues.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related with 8+ years of related experience, or a Master’s Degree or related with 6+ years of related experience.
• Domain Expertise: Extensive, recognized experience in Product or Customer Quality Engineering with a deep understanding of product architecture and complex failure mechanisms.
• Strategic Acumen: Proven ability to analyze the upstream and downstream impacts of technical changes, providing strategic recommendations that improve product performance and reliability.
• Leadership & Influence: Demonstrated success leading multiple high-priority projects and acting as a technical lead in cross-functional, matrixed environments.
• Advanced Analytics: Exceptional ability to apply statistical modeling and data analytics to identify innovative, long-term solutions to persistent quality challenges.
• Communication: Superior ability to influence and align executive-level stakeholders through compelling, data-driven storytelling and clear, professional technical reporting.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. 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. 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. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.