Software Quality Engineer, Secure Firewall

Cisco
Maryland, Austin
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 138,100 - 198,200 annuallyFunction: QA, Test & Release EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Technical judgment","Defect investigation","Execution ownership"]

Own risk-based test areas for Cisco Secure Firewall, validating complex end-to-end customer workflows across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Execute system and integration testing, including regression, upgrade/rollback, resiliency, recovery, scale, stress, and longevity, while investigating defects with strong technical evidence. Collaborate across development, platform, automation, product, and release teams, building and maintaining Python-based automated tests and representative test environments.

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Software Quality Engineer, Secure Firewall

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Job Summary

Own risk-based test areas for Cisco Secure Firewall, validating complex end-to-end customer workflows across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Execute system and integration testing, including regression, upgrade/rollback, resiliency, recovery, scale, stress, and longevity, while investigating defects with strong technical evidence. Collaborate across development, platform, automation, product, and release teams, building and maintaining Python-based automated tests and representative test environments.
Location: Maryland, Austin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: QA, Test & Release Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and execute risk-based test plans for Cisco Secure Firewall products and their management, data-plane, platform, and ecosystem integrations.
  • •Validate end-to-end firewall workflows including threat inspection, routing/switching, NAT, VPN, identity, logging, and policy deployment.
  • •Test complex deployment topologies (standalone, high-availability, clustered, multi-instance, virtualized, and cloud-based).
  • •Perform feature integration and regression testing, including upgrades, rollback, backward compatibility, resiliency, recovery, scale, stress, and longevity.
  • •Design, implement, and maintain automated tests and representative test environments; reproduce and characterize failures using logs, packet captures, traces, and diagnostic tools.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 138,100 - 198,200 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid ParentalLong-term DisabilityLife InsuranceEquityPaid HolidaysPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of experience in software quality engineering, system testing, network engineering, or a related discipline.
  • •Experience designing test scenarios, selecting methodologies, and configuring required test environments.
  • •Experience using Python (or a comparable scripting language) for test automation and tooling.
  • •Experience with Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting.
  • •Experience using generative AI assistants across the software development lifecycle to accelerate coding and automate testing.
Experience:5+ yearsNetwork-securitySystem testingNetwork engineeringAutomationSoftware quality engineering
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationTechnical judgmentDefect investigationExecution ownership
Certifications:CCNP EnterpriseCCNP Security
Tech Stack:PythonLinuxUnixTCP/IPWiresharkTcpdumpPyATSPytestREST APIsGitCI/CDVMwareKVMAWSAzureGoogle CloudPacket capturesLogsTracesCore files

Company Brief

Cisco
Global technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and high-technology services and products for enterprises, service providers, and governments worldwide.
Industry: Networking Equipment
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1984
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