Software Manager, Test Automation - Camera
At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making IT and security easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works.
Meraki MV is an enterprise-grade security camera system, and is a new and quickly growing product line. The cameras are cloud-managed, but store and process video at the edge, enabling privacy, data sovereignty, and scalability. Our mission is to bring Meraki simplicity to the physical security market, leaving our users delighted as they solve problems and answer questions using our system.
In this role, you will use your experience with software, testing, and QA to enable our success. You will grow and lead a small team of 3-5 engineers, providing them technical mentorship as well as planning the team’s roadmap. Your team will be fully embedded within the software development team and work closely with a number of other teams in engineering and other departments. For example, your team will help MV developers write tests for new features, work with other test teams to plan changes to shared infrastructure, and collaborate with our Product Management team.
As the manager of the Meraki MV test automation team, you will:
- Planning and tracking test development timelines, updating the rest of the team when things change
- Playing a key role in the software release process for the larger MV team: moving release candidate builds through different stages of validation (internal testing, beta, etc.), acting as a gatekeeper of quality at each stage
- Architecting changes to our testbed topology to support testing of a broader range of product features and an accurate reflection of customer deployments
- Select and follow appropriate agile and other software development principles so your team consistently delivers high quality, stable, and useable test frameworks
- Write performance reviews and encourage the professional growth of everyone on your team
- Identify gaps in your team’s knowledge or ability to execute, and work with our recruiters to build out your team
- Be a part of the leadership of the larger MV team: weighing in on development priorities, projects going on across the team, etc.
You are ideal for this role if you have:
- 2+ years of experience managing and leading teams of software engineers
- 2+ years of software test and/or QA experience
- 4+ years of software development experience
- Experience with Quality Assistance or Quality Engineering
- Strong understanding of software development testing frameworks and best practices
- Experience configuring and debugging networking equipment or protocols
- Experience automating or scripting tests or other systems in languages such as Python or Ruby
- Leadership experience on projects involving substantial planning and coordination (either in a formal role or de facto)
- Expert knowledge of end-to-end testing of physical embedded devices
Bonus points for:
- Knowledge of camera and video technologies (h.264, DSPs, computer vision, system resource protection)
- Knowledge of wireless protocols (e.g., 802.11, Bluetooth)
- Experience with wired networking (LAN and WAN) and TCP/IP suite of protocols
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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