Cisco Software QA Engineer 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

318119992

Application window is expected to close on 08/30/2024.

The successful applicant will be performing work in FedRAMP environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee).

Who You‘ll Work With:

You will collaborate with a wide range of multi-functional teams, both within and outside the organization during all phases of the software application life cycle. Our QA Engineers test code both manually and with automated tools.

Who You Are:

You are an engineer who is passionate about quality assurance. You will be responsible for leading the QA effort for the FedRAMP initiative in our security backend organization to ensure software quality, delivery, and maintenance during the product life cycle. Project delivery requires alignment to effective delivery processes, specifically Cisco Agile.

You will bring system level mentality to test end-to-end solutions so that all products covered in this offering function correctly. QA Engineers are also responsible for application deployments and support of production issues with our Ops engineers.

What you'll do:

• Learn new skills and product features supported by a great team environment.
• Perform end to end systems qualification and validation, using automated tests as much as possible.
• Working with developers, you'll independently design and plan tests to ensure the quality of our products.
• Craft testing supporting documentation.
• Discover defects and drive them through the resolution through the tests you devise.
• Proactively solve and tackle issues related to the entire protocol stack.
• Build automated test suites using Python, Go, or similar languages and support their continual enhancement.
• Collaborate with other Cisco teams, including Development, DevOps, Issue.
• Be a part of 24x7 on-call rotation for incident support

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience of software QA experience.
• 2+ years’ experience with automation using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• 2+ years’ experience with AWS technologies, including but not limited to EKS, Spark, Lambda, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS GovCloud and FedRAMP experience is required.
• Experience with open-source technologies such as Docker, Kafka, etc is also desired.
• Experience with security software QA (Web or email security a big plus)
• Experience with Jira-Xray test management
• You advocate the Software Development Process, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes.
• You're no stranger to software development using Agile/Scrum practices.
• You have at least a bachelor’s in computer science / computer engineering or related technical field.
• You have strong communication and collaboration skills.

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