Senior QA Technical Leader

at  Cisco Systems

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The Security Business Group is looking to hire an experienced Automation Developer engineer to join the Cisco Secure Client Team. Join a dynamic team that has deployed products on over 130 million of the latest devices including Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience in testing VPN clients, firewalls, or other network security products
• Good experience and knowledge in TCP/IP and networking protocols
• Secure coding and encryption protocol experience
• Experience with performance, regression tes>ng, and automation tools
• Candidate should have a solid understanding of security concepts such as SSL, Digital Certificates, code signing, etc.
• Agile development process experience
• Anticipate performance, security, and scale issues, and advocate for changes to architectural design
• Perform risk assessments on testing decisions and identify ways to mitigate risk across different products
• Leverage in-depth knowledge of multiple domains to achieve the desired outcome
• Write functional clean code and unit tests at a level that sets the standard for coding across teams
• Influence architectural decisions with a focus on security, scalability and reliability
• Contribute to threat modeling of a product
• Design and innovate software quality assurance strategy and best practices across various levels and environments through communication with development teams and external stakeholders, leveraging software testing insight

• Define, design, and develop detailed test plans for mobile and desktop clients
• Discover defects and drive them through resolu>on
• Work well in a team environment, be highly self-motivated, and be willing to learn new skills and product features
• Actively participate in and contribute to discussions pertaining to test architecture, roadmap, and scoping
• Work collaboratively with other groups such as development, escalation, documentation, and marketing teams
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical guidance to other engineers
• Creation and con>nual enhancement of automated test suites using Python, Java, or similar languages
• Troubleshoot issues related to the entire protocol stack
• Ensure the introduction and implementation of the latest automated and exploratory testing practices within QA Engineering discipline
• Present testing insights to executive leaders and key external stakeholders
• Proactively identifies opportunities to address design flaws and advocates for the adoption of innovative solutions
• Defines best practices for test implementation and strategy
• Writes and sets the standard for functional clean code