Software Engineer – AI Quality & Test Automation | Security - Python | Golang | Test Automation | AI/ML Testing | Agentic Workflows (4 - 8 Years)

Cisco; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco in Bengaluru is seeking a software engineer to build test infrastructure for our AI‑powered SOC. You will translate quality challenges into scalable testing solutions, develop evaluation frameworks, and drive the lifecycle of proof-of-concept tests to validate new ideas and software behavior.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, review code, validate hypotheses, and ensure reliable, high‑quality outcomes aligned with security and performance goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software development with 4+ years of testing experience.
• Experience writing scalable, high-performance tests and test automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with security/compliance testing and performance testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development of testing foundations and evaluation frameworks for AI agents and workflows.
• Collaborate with team members, participate in code/design reviews, and validate technical hypotheses.

Skills

Python

Go

AI in test automation

Testing infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Playwright

K6

JMeter

Job description

Role Summary

Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) is a sophisticated SIEM built atop Splunk’s data platform with lots of moving parts. We help thousands of customers as they identify and protect their assets from cyber threats, all over the world. On any given day, our software needs to handle thousands of users, petabytes of data, and unique usage patterns across different deployment topologies.

Role Summary

Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) is a sophisticated SIEM built atop Splunk’s data platform with lots of moving parts. We help thousands of customers as they identify and protect their assets from cyber threats, all over the world. On any given day, our software needs to handle thousands of users, petabytes of data, and unique usage patterns across different deployment topologies.

Meet the Team

Are you ready to shape the future of AI-powered quality? We are seeking a software engineer to build test infrastructure for our AI-agentic Security Operations Center (SOC)! Together, we define the strategic direction that secures the absolute reliability and performance of our most complex systems. We work to mentor world-class engineering talent, drive the adoption of groundbreaking benchmarking, and catalyze the evolution of our quality ecosystems. Join us as we work to transform high-level challenges into scalable, high-impact solutions.

Your Impact

This role is designed for an engineer who translates quality challenges into technical solutions, driving engineering efficiency through evaluation strategies and implementation. In this role, you will collaborate with team members and implement benchmarking protocols that support our technical performance goals. Responsibilities include:

• Technical Contribution: Contribute to the development of PQ foundations and evaluation frameworks, ensuring assessment capabilities for AI agents, workflows, and system processes.
• Technical Collaboration & Support: Support the team by collaborating with members, participating in code and design reviews, and assisting in the validation of technical hypotheses.
• Experimental Execution: Implement the lifecycle of proof-of-concepts (POCs), adhering to standards for experimentation and the validation of testing paradigms.
• Quality Ecosystem Maintenance: Ensure that testing processes deliver reliable, high-quality outcomes, maintaining alignment with team quality goals.
• Validation Execution: Implement validation techniques, including LLM-as-judge methodologies, tenant isolation probes, and behavioral regression suites.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering teams to implement contract testing, audit log validation, and security compliance, ensuring integration of quality across the development lifecycle.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years of experience in software development and test automation, including experience building large-scale testing ecosystems.
• Demonstrated experience in programming, specifically Python and Go, with a proven ability to design scalable, maintainable, and high-performance testing infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience with security compliance frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience with modern performance testing methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience using AI to build automation (writing AI skills to build test automation).

Preferred Qualifications

• Problem-Solving: Capacity to translate quality challenges into structured and actionable technical implementations.
• Technical Vision: Ability to innovate within the AI/ML landscape, applying modern tooling to drive detection efficacy and system reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Problem-Solving: Capacity to translate quality challenges into structured and actionable technical implementations.
• Technical Vision: Ability to innovate within the AI/ML landscape, applying modern tooling to drive detection efficacy and system reliability.
• Test Automation: Go, Python, Contract testing frameworks, Playwright.
• Performance Testing: K6, Terra Virtual Machine (Security Suite), and JMeter.

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.