QA Engineer - Automation, Proxy, Networking | 8 - 12 yrs

Cisco
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: QA, Test & Release EngineeringExperience: 8-12 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Risk-based planning","Cross-functional collaboration","Proactive ownership","Diagnosing complex failures","Driving issues to closure"]

Own end-to-end quality for secure Agent Gateway services, from test strategy and automation through release validation and post-deployment verification. Design and automate component, API, integration, performance, security, resilience, and production-readiness tests using GitHub and Jenkins. Validate control- and data-plane behavior across networking, proxy, and protocol boundaries (TCP/UDP/TLS/DNS/HTTP/QUIC). Drive cross-component defects to verified closure.

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QA Engineer - Automation, Proxy, Networking | 8 - 12 yrs

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end quality for secure Agent Gateway services, from test strategy and automation through release validation and post-deployment verification. Design and automate component, API, integration, performance, security, resilience, and production-readiness tests using GitHub and Jenkins. Validate control- and data-plane behavior across networking, proxy, and protocol boundaries (TCP/UDP/TLS/DNS/HTTP/QUIC). Drive cross-component defects to verified closure.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: QA, Test & Release Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own quality end to end for secure Agent Gateway services, including test strategy, automation, release validation, and post-deployment verification.
  • •Plan risk-based end-to-end coverage, automation strategy, exit criteria, deployment validation, release readiness, and residual risk communication.
  • •Design and automate component, API, integration, end-to-end, performance, security, resilience, and production-readiness tests using GitHub and Jenkins pipelines.
  • •Validate control-plane and data-plane behavior under latency, concurrency, retries/timeouts, backpressure, dependency degradation, failover/recovery, capacity, and rollback.
  • •Test protocol and boundary behavior (TCP/UDP/TLS/mTLS/DNS/routing/load balancing/HTTP/QUIC) and validate MCP client/server authentication/authorization and safe agent workflows.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • •8 to 12 years of quality or software engineering experience with end-to-end testing and automation ownership for distributed, networking, security, proxy, or cloud services.
  • •Hands-on Golang and/or Python test automation for APIs/services and end-to-end workflows, including CI/CD integration and Linux or container diagnostics.
  • •Experience testing L4/L7 proxy behavior, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, status codes, load balancing, and connection troubleshooting.
  • •Experience testing secure-access products (e.g., ZTNA/SSE) and validating OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, tenant isolation, authorization, and policy enforcement.
Experience:8-12 yearsDistributed systemsNetwork securityProxyCloudSecure accessZTNASSE
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field)
Skills:Risk-based planningCross-functional collaborationProactive ownershipDiagnosing complex failuresDriving issues to closure
Tech Stack:GolangGoPythonGitHubJenkinsLinuxContainersKubernetesAWSEnvoyH2OXDSAPI gatewaysService meshesOpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaSplunkTCPUDP

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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