Hiring: Software Quality Engineer, Secure Firewall Company: Cisco Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 22:46:38 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, BGP, CI/CD, GCP, Git, Linux, Python, REST, TCP/IP, VPN, pytest About the job Experience: •5 years of experience in software quality engineering, system testing, network engineering, or a related discipline. •40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Required Skills: •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 workflows across firewall management, threat inspection, routing, switching, NAT, VPN, identity, logging, policy deployment, and related security capabilities. •Test complex deployment topologies, including standalone, high-availability, clustered, multi-instance, virtualized, and cloud-based environments. •Perform feature integration, system, regression, upgrade, rollback, backward-compatibility, resiliency, recovery, scale, stress, and longevity testing. •Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot automated tests using Python-based frameworks and supporting tools. •Build, configure, and maintain representative test environments containing network devices, security appliances, traffic generators, virtual machines, and cloud resources. •Reproduce, isolate, and characterize complex software and system failures using packet captures, logs, traces, core files, system metrics, and diagnostic tools. •Document defects with clear reproduction procedures, technical evidence, business impact, and severity justification. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree + 5 years of experience in software quality engineering, system testing, network engineering, or a related discipline. •Strong knowledge of TCP/IP and network troubleshooting. •LANs, link aggregation, and interface configurations •Static and dynamic routing, including OSPF and BGP •Site-to-site and remote-access VPN technologies •High availability, failover, clustering, or redundant systems Compensation: •$138,100 - $198,200 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •And/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!