Senior Software QA Engineer--Security Innovation

The application window is expected to close on January 21st, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled in a sufficient of applicants are received.

Who We Are

As part of Cisco's Security Business Group, the Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network security services, which enables the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Our product portfolio includes the cloud delivered firewall, Web proxy, Zero Trust Proxy, NaaS integrations, and inspection services. We are now engineering a highly available distributed security fabric that brings it all together, Cisco Hypershield. We are highly passionate about the interconnected SASE world, and this is part of our continued commitment to offer customer-focused security products at the edge of technology.

Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices and data across public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations - anywhere customers need it. Designed and built with AI in mind from the start, Hypershield enables organizations to achieve security outcomes beyond what has been possible with humans alone.

Who You Are

The management plane acts as the brains of Hypershield. We seek an innovative QA engineer to test features associated with Hypershield's management plane, which controls the security assets deployed by customers. Our Ideal candidate will have the ability to identify bugs and negative patterns/trends as well as optimize testing with carefully crafted passes. They will communicate effortlessly with collaborators, particularly when clarifications are needed on software behavior.

Typical responsibilities may include:

• Ensure we connect together network events of significance, AI engines, the generation, administration, deployment, enforcement and orchestration of security policies
• Validate feature sets that enrich the customer experience ranging from deployment to configuration, monitoring, logging, and storage
• Identify areas that need testing, develop methodologies to implement them
• Collaborate with Developers, Project Managers and Program managers, creating transparency into our quality and defining DevTest strategy for the team.
• We are a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco. We work in an agile, "startup-style" environment with minimal bureaucracy.

Minimum Qualifications for this Role:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of professional QA experience with at least 3 years testing SaaS solutions
• Experience in the network security domain

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Ownership of major quality components of a product
• Extensive End to end SaaS applications testing
• Ability to use AWS or other public cloud infrastructure for deployment, spinup, install, configure, etc. as needed, independently
• Prior experience testing products in Linux based environments, fluency with Linux command line
• Networking fundamentals and firewall policies knowledge
• Ability to read programming code
• Define and execute manual tests, while paving the way for automation
• Working as part of a remote or distributed team

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