Automation Engineer (Remote)

Meraki is making IT easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works.

Meraki’s Dashboard drastically simplifies the process of deploying and configuring distributed networks, enabling customers to debug networking issues in real time from anywhere!

Our customers aren’t limited to those who buy Meraki equipment, we measure our success by the experience of everyone who interacts with our product, from other teams across the organization to the end users of our customers’ networks.

The Opportunity

As a Test Automation Software Engineer, you will join a newly forming testing group within the Dashboard Platform team.

Your initial responsibilities will be very hands-on building out test coverage.

Future opportunities include helping to build new test frameworks, as well as evangelism across the organization.

Potential Projects Include

• Articulating test plans and prioritizing them for automation
• Building out our suite of BDD functional tests
• Assisting in the development of our testing framework
• Integrate end to end tests into build pipelines
• Create dashboards for monitoring and alerts around test failures
• Develop and evangelize good testing practices
• Mentor other engineers on how to write quality tests & improve existing ones

You are an ideal candidate if…

• 2+ years hands on experience building and maintaining test suites, preferably with open source frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, etc.
• You have experience with scripting languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript
• You are a proven technical communicator
• You are an enthusiastic advocate for testing best practices
• Data and metrics driven to inform decisions
• Ability to weigh technical trade-offs against business goals
• Possess deep technical curiosity

Bonus Points for the Following

• Experience with Cucumber and Cypress and/or Rails
• Experience with Postgres or other RDBMS
• Experience with CI systems
• Experience with Docker and/or other container technologies
• Knowledge of networking systems generally, or Meraki specifically

At Cisco Meraki, we don’t just accept difference
– it’s one of our key values!

Everybody In means we listen to each other’s opinions.

Everybody is accepted and valued here, and we are a team that works as one towards our goals.

We recognize that diverse teams make the strongest teams, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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.