Cisco Early Career Software Quality Assurance QA Engineer / Test 

United Kingdom, England, London 

265174557

Start Date:February or March 2025

Feltham, United Kingdom (Hybrid work approach, working from the Feltham office a minimum of 1 day per week.)

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a QA Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest quality of products released to our employees. Your responsibilities include:

• Testing operating systems, applications, devices, and platforms as part of our release processes within a global Agile team.
• Develop and design comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Implement tests, identify, document, and track defects and issues, providing detailed reports to the development team for resolution.
• Applying standard practices with a quality-first mentality in an Agile team.
• Participate in retrospectives and suggest improvements to processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance product quality.
• Presenting, sharing, and demonstrating your work to team members and stakeholders.
• Maintain and update documentation related to testing processes, results, and quality standards.

WHO YOU ARE

We are looking for a dedicated, curious, and determined individual with:

• A passion for mobile and desktop technologies and user experience.
• Keen attention to detail and curiosity to understand how things work (and sometimes don’t work).
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative and open style with a constructive and positive outlook.

OUR MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS ROLE

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in computer science or a relevant engineering degree or graduate of a certification programme (e.g. bootcamp or apprenticeship). Equivalent experience accepted in lieu of these.
• Open to 0-3 years of relevant experience or recent graduate or those in their final year of studies.
• Experience with scripting languages (JavaScript, Python).
• Able to legally live and work in the country for which you’re applying

OUR PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS ROLE

• Experience with test frameworks, methodologies, and software lifecycle.
• Experience of QA automation tools.
• Experience with iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac operating systems.
• Experience working in an Agile organization, preferably working with Jira.
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications in a staging/production environment
• Understanding of security practices
• Experience with developing, testing and debugging automated tasks (CI/CD pipelines).

WHAT WE OFFER

At Cisco, we truly believe in the wellbeing of our employees and work life balance and our benefits package is designed to reflect this! On top of a competitive remuneration package, you may be entitled to receive these and more as part of our People Deal and benefits package + the following:

• Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays + an additional day off for your birthday
• Free shuttle buses between local stations and the Cisco Campus office
• We encourage a culture of giving back to the community, and you will be invited to participate in giving back events organised either by the IT team or the Bedfont Lakes campus CSR team. Every year, you can use up 10 days for volunteering activities on top of your normal annual leave allowance!
• Employee stock purchase programme
• Wellbeing programme via Pavelka
• Support in gaining your Cisco certifications
• Give you access to the vast resources of Cisco to help enable your learning