AI-Driven Performance QA Engineering Manager

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 214,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a senior testing leader to design and execute comprehensive performance tests across UI, API, and backend layers, ensuring reliability for SaaS and on-premises deployments.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted test generation, automation documentation, and impactful insights to engineering teams. The ideal candidate will lead a global team, drive quality strategy, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, SRE, and Release Management to improve performance and reduce

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years, or master's degree with 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, Solution Testing, or Test Automation, including 4+ years of direct people management.
• Experience in testing methodologies, quality strategy, E2E solution validation, defect prevention, and release readiness.
• Experience in Python or Java, test automation, UI/API testing and CI/CD.
• Experience with cloud and infrastructure technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, containers, Linux/Unix, and distributed systems.
• Experience in enterprise networking and cloud/on-prem integrated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, script, and execute comprehensive load, stress, endurance, and benchmarking tests across UI, API, and backend layers to ensure system reliability.
• Develop and maintain detailed test plans and automation documentation to enable reproducibility.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate test case generation and optimize performance scripts.
• Diagnose complex performance bottlenecks across Linux servers, networking hardware, and AWS infrastructure.
• Integrate automated test suites into DevOps pipelines to establish continuous performance guardrails and provide actionable insights to development teams.

Skills

Python/Java

CI/CD

Test automation

Load testing

SRE/DevOps integration

Leadership

AWS

Kubernetes

Linux/Unix

Education

Bachelor's degree with 12+ years

Master's degree with 8+ years

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Containers

Linux

Python

Java

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a senior testing leader to design and execute comprehensive performance tests across UI, API, and backend layers, ensuring reliability for SaaS and on-premises deployments.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted test generation, automation documentation, and impactful insights to engineering teams. The ideal candidate will lead a global team, drive quality strategy, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, SRE, and Release Management to improve performance and reduce