Senior AI Quality Engineer — Automation & Validation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco is shaping the future of AI-powered quality for Enterprise Security and modern SOC workflows. Join a team partnering with Engineering, Product, Security, and Quality to advance reliable, scalable AI-driven testing across mission-critical platforms.

You will define architecture, mentor engineers, and drive automated validation strategies from development to production, ensuring high-quality outcomes at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience in software development, quality engineering, or test automation.
• 5+ years of experience architecting large-scale test automation platforms or quality engineering ecosystems.
• 5+ years software development experience in Python and Playwright.
• 5+ years experience designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance test infrastructure.
• 1+ years experience using AI-assisted tools or AI agents to build and scale test automation.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture and roadmap for Product Quality foundations, test automation, and AI-agent evaluation frameworks.
• Lead validation strategies for AI agents, complex SOC workflows, tenant isolation, audit logs, and system behavior.
• Identify gaps in current testing methods and build AI-based automation solutions to improve quality, coverage, and efficiency.
• Establish benchmarking, performance testing, and regression frameworks for scalable and reliable product validation.
• Mentor engineers, review technical designs, and guide teams through complex quality and automation challenges.
• Lead proof-of-concepts and define clear success criteria for new testing approaches and AI-assisted automation.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to embed quality earlier in the development lifecycle.
• Drive standards for contract testing, compliance validation, performance testing, and behavioral regression.
• Ensure testing processes deliver reliable, repeatable, and high-quality outcomes at enterprise scale.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Python

Playwright

Test automation

Quality engineering

Job description

Cisco is shaping the future of AI-powered quality for Enterprise Security and modern SOC workflows. Join a team partnering with Engineering, Product, Security, and Quality to advance reliable, scalable AI-driven testing across mission-critical platforms.

You will define architecture, mentor engineers, and drive automated validation strategies from development to production, ensuring high-quality outcomes at enterprise scale.