Cisco Hiring for Software QA Engineer at Boxborough, Massachusetts, US Full Time

Cisco is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer passionate about finding code defects and improving the quality of our Cisco products!

Whom You’ll Work With :

We are looking to hire a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Secure Client Team. The Cisco Secure Client helps enable a highly secure connectivity experience across a broad set of PC and mobile devices.

Our diverse groups deployed products on over 130 million latest desktop and mobile devices, including iPhone, Android, and Windows Phones. Join us!

What You’ll Do :

• Learn new skills and product features supported by a great team environment.
• 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 troubleshoot and solve issues related to the entire protocol stack.
• Build automated test suites using Python, Java, or similar languages and support their continual enhancement.
• Collaborate with other Cisco teams, including Development, Escalation, Documentation, and Marketing.

Who You Are :

• You are self-motivated, driven, and engaged. You’re passionate about testing and enjoy collaborating in a team-based environment.
• You have fun learning new technologies. You want to get to the bottom of things, understand what’s happening, and make a difference! You are someone who doesn’t give up when faced with complex problems.
• You have experience with software testing methodology.
• You enjoy creating test plans, finding defects, and crashing required documentation.
• You have a consistent track record of building positive relationships with technical engineers and non-technical customers.
• You possess superb verbal and written communication skills for interacting with team members and providing detailed product documentation.

Basic Qualifications :

• Minimum three years of software QA experience with an MSEE / CS or five years of QA experience with a BSEE / CS or related technical degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum two years of experience with TCP / IP stack and networking / security protocols
• Minimum two years of experience with one of the platforms : Windows, macOS, and Linux or Mobile platforms iOS / Android
• Minimum two years of experience with automation using Python.

Desired Skills

• Experience in testing VPN clients, firewalls, or other network / application security products
• Secure coding and encryption protocol experience
• Experience with regression testing and automation tools
• Experience working on security concepts such as SSL, Digital Certificates, code signing, etc.
• Agile development process experience, and we know we’re better together.

This role requires the engineer to be on-site at least two to three times weekly at the Boxborough, MA office.