Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

The Cisco Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network security services, enabling the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Our product portfolio includes cloud firewall, Web proxy, Zero Trust Proxy, NaaS integrations, and inspection services as highly available distributed systems using cloud engineering practices. We operate in a startup-style environment with minimal bureaucracy, focusing on innovation and quality in the SIG and SASE space.

Your Impact

We're seeking an experienced QA Engineer to implement quality assurance strategies for our Hypershield solution. You'll collaborate with Senior Leadership, Product Management, and Customers to ensure our groundbreaking security products meet the highest standards of reliability and performance.

• Deploy quality assurance measures for distributed security applications
• Design and implement comprehensive test strategies and methodologies.
• Identify areas requiring testing and develop efficient approaches to validate functionality.
• Develop a roadmap for test automation to ensure repeatability and coverage.
• Collaborate with developers, project managers, and program managers to track and provide transparency into quality metrics.
• Define and implement the DevTest strategy for the team.
• Use innovative approaches, including GenAI tools, to accelerate testing processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree and 5+ years of QA experience
• 3+ years testing SaaS solutions.
• Strong ability to read and understand programming code (Python preferred).
• Experience transitioning manual test cases to Github Actions CI/CD pipelines.
• Led Kubernetes deployments and integrated automated QA pipelines for distributed. security services.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years in a lead QA role with ownership of product quality
• Experience with GenAI for testing solutions
• Knowledge of high-speed application profiling
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and Linux environments
• Familiarity with networking protocols and firewall policies

Why Cisco?

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.