Automation Test Engineer - Python, L2/L3 layer (5-8y)

Who We Are

Cisco Secure Firewall (CSF) is the flagship product of the Security Business Group (SBG). FTD integrates aware-willing ASA Firewall services and the world's best and most well-known IPS engine SNORT into a high-performance appliance. It is a very successful product and continues to lead the market with threat centric focus and market-differentiating features. Though we take great pride in being market leaders in threat security for a long time, we are constantly innovating and enhancing our solutions with AI and ML to address the constantly evolving threat perceptions and changing data security paradigms so that our customers are always secure. We take our customers' trust in us very seriously and go all the way to ensure we protect their data at all times. Our team works on health monitoring, AIOps and leading security and threat mitigation solutions that are high-performing, scalable and easily manageable.

What You'll Do:

• Be involved in the design discussions and develop & execute test plans to verify the feature functionality, scale and performance and ensure the quality of our products.
• Discover defects and drive them to the resolution working closely with cross-functional org.
• Drive code quality through test driven approach.
• Harden the test plans & automation continually to improve the test efficacy.
• Be involved actively in issue repro and verifications of customer issues.
• Build automated test suites using Python, Java, or similar languages and support their continual enhancement.
  
  

Who You Are:

• You are self-motivated, self-driven and enjoy collaborating in a team-based environment.
• You're passionate about testing & obsessed with quality assurance.
• You have experience with software testing methodologies.
• You enjoy creating test plans, finding defects, and creating required documentation.
• You have a consistent track record of building positive relationships with cross functional teams and vendors.
• You possess superb verbal and written communication skills for interacting with team members and providing detailed product documentation.
  
  

Qualification & Skills:

• 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.
• Expertise on Network security (Inspection/ Intrusion prevention / Intrusion detection / NAT / Access-list / IPSEC and SSL VPN / TLS)
• Experience and knowledge on Routing & Switching (OSPF / BGP / EIGRP / VLAN / STP / DHCP / multicast)
• Experience in testing VPN clients, firewalls, or other network/application security products
• Experience in manual testing and automation tools
• Experience in building complex topologies and handling customer issues
• Experience in DevOps, Continuous integration and Continuous delivery tools.
  
  

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