Technical Leader - QA

The application window has been extended is expected to close on December 4, 2024.

The Cisco 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. Cisco Security is passionate about the interconnected SASE world. Our product portfolio includes solutions that span SD-WAN firewalls, Web-based proxies, Zero Trust proxies, and inspection and encryption services at a variety of network intersections. We are now engineering a highly available distributed security fabric that brings it all together.

You will work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry on building out Cisco's Hypershield solution. You will identify areas that need testing, develop methodologies to execute them. You will pave the path for automation engineers to ensure repeatability. You will collaborate closely with Developers, Project Managers and Program managers to track and build transparency into our quality and define a DevTest strategy for the team. We work in an agile, "startup-style" environment with minimal bureaucracy. You will be part of a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco, working with minimal direction.

You are an innovative Lead QA Engineer with experience in managing the quality of large-scale projects and interested in making an impact in the field of network security.

You are comfortable in design discussions alongside other architects and engineers. You can present designs and solutions to multiple teams across organizations, capturing feedback that will help us drive consensus and gain alignment. You are not afraid to seize ownership of the quality of our products, innovate processes and methodologies to test and optimize for coverage of quality for our groundbreaking, new products.

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience
• 5+ years in a QA role with cloud computing or network security products

• Prior Lead QA role, with experience taking full ownership of quality for a product.
• Prior experience in testing SaaS applications end to end.
• Prior experience and 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.
• Knowledge of networking basics and firewall policies
• Ability to read programming code.
• Ability to define and execute manual tests, while paving the way for automation
• Strong communication skills, particularly the ability to provide clarifications on software behavior.
• Ability to identify bugs and negative patterns/trends.
• Ability to optimize testing with carefully crafted passes.
• Painstaking attention to detail, documentation and process
• Working as part of a remote or distributed team
• Proficiency in working with Linux command line.

We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.

Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.

We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!

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