Firewall QA Engineer: End-to-End Security Testing

Cisco; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 138,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability & life insurance

Job summary

Cisco Systems is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to own test areas and validate complex workflows across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. You will work with software development, platform, automation, product, and release teams to identify and mitigate quality risks throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities include risk-based test planning, end-to-end validation of firewall functions, deployment topologies, and automated test design using Python.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree + 5 years of experience in software quality engineering, system testing, network engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience designing test scenarios, selecting appropriate methodologies, and configuring required test environments.
• Experience using Python or a comparable scripting language for test automation and tooling.
• Experience with Linux or Unix administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience leveraging generative AI assistants across the software development lifecycle to accelerate coding, automate testing, and streamline work item management.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Participate in feature handoffs, technical reviews, test-plan reviews, defect triage, and cross-functional quality reviews.
• Use AI-assisted engineering and testing tools where appropriate to accelerate test design, failure analysis, and automation development while validating outputs and protecting confidential information.

Skills

Test design

Python scripting

Linux/Unix

AI in SDLC

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 5 years exp

Tools

pyATS

pytest

Wireshark

tcpdump

Job description

Cisco Systems is seeking a Software Quality Engineer to own test areas and validate complex workflows across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. You will work with software development, platform, automation, product, and release teams to identify and mitigate quality risks throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities include risk-based test planning, end-to-end validation of firewall functions, deployment topologies, and automated test design using Python.