Cisco QA Engineering Manager Mandate EndPoint /Security 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

211134996

About you:

You will be responsible for developing and delivering innovative strategies that benefit customers and/or clients. Contribute to the development of annual organizational objectives/priorities. Build and maintain long-term relationships with key stakeholders to ensure products and services reflect the needs and direction of the business.

What You’ll Do

• Manage professional employees and/or leaders and be accountable for the performance and results of a team

• Translate and influence strategic vision into a technical roadmap with clear priorities and provide functional and technical oversight to the team

• Work in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to understand potential future product needs and proactively drive strategy for functional and non-functional testing

• Serves as the point person for interaction with multi-functional teams to eliminate blockers hold technical discussions and solve immediate problems

• Upholds high standards for Software quality (e.g., testing standards and automation reviews) and enables the team members to do the same

• Evaluate and help resolve product issues and ensure high quality of the software throughout the development and release process

• Monitors compliance with procedures, policies, and standards; acts on issues and makes recommendations for further enhancement

• Participate in product roadmap discussions and provide schedules and resource estimates

Who You Are

• Key player in defining, delivering, and maintaining high-quality Secure Client Software on all supported platforms

• Have ability to drive teams with excellent problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills

• You are passionate about technology innovation

• You are a critical thinker and problem solver

• You have experience working with diverse and multiple time zone teams

• You strongly believe in the importance of Customer-first approach

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree + 8 years of people management experience, or Masters + 6 years of people management experience or PhD + 3 years of people management experience

• Experience and technical knowledge o
f endpoint and security products

• Experience with the CI/CD releases within an Agile Software Development Life Cycle

• Experience with the best security practices as it applies to Software Engineering

• Experience with QA processes, test strategies development, and standard methodologies

Preferred skills:

• Endpoint Software, Remote access Endpoint security software products (Ex: VPN)

• Knowledge on Linux Virtualization experience (ESX, VMware), various desktop and mobile platforms

• Knowledge of Security technologies, Network access devices (Switches, Firewalls etc), Active Directory, Certificate Server, AAA, radius, 802.11, wireless technologies

• Working experience and knowledge of few Agile Frameworks

• Solid understanding of scrum techniques and artifacts such as User stories, Backlog grooming, QA Automation etc.