Test Engineer

Meet the Team

Join Cisco's dynamic Test Engineering team, where your expertise will help shape the future of connected technology. Our team collaborates across hardware, software, and operations to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions that power industries worldwide. We foster a culture of curiosity, teamwork, and continuous learning, supporting each other as we take on new challenges and drive meaningful impact.

Your Impact

As a Test Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and executing advanced test strategies that ensure Cisco products meet the highest standards for quality and performance. You'll leverage your technical skills and business acumen to solve complex problems, support the introduction of new technologies, and drive process optimization and cost reduction. Your work will directly contribute to successful product launches and ongoing product excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Support the deployment and optimization of test strategies for Cisco products.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies required for upcoming product releases.
• Debug process and product issues, collect data, and drive corrective actions for yield improvement, test optimization, and automation.
• Manage EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Services) partners against key performance indicators.
• Lead and support cost reduction initiatives.
• Communicate complex concepts and negotiate solutions with cross-functional teams, using data-driven approaches.
• Mentor and provide guidance to less experienced team members.
• Drive analytics and digitization projects to enhance test and manufacturing processes.
• Explore and implement new technologies where relevant.
• Manage functional test capacity and ensure readiness for new product introductions.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams for early engagement and alignment on test requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and optimize test strategies and processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve test and product issues through data analysis and corrective action.
• Manage EMS partner performance and relationships.
• Identify opportunities and implement cost-saving measures.
• Mentor junior engineers and share best practices.
• Support digitization and analytics initiatives within the team.
• Manage functional test capacity for current and new products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across hardware, software, and operations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in test engineering.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience debugging and resolving manufacturing or test-related issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) partners.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to drive cost reduction and process optimization initiatives.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Experience with digitization projects and analytics in a test or manufacturing environment.
• Ability to mentor and support the development of junior team members.

Who You'll Work With

• Internal Teams: Hardware, software, operations, and analytics teams.
• External Partners: EMS and technology vendors.
• Cross-Functional Stakeholders: Quality, product engineering, and supply chain teams.

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.