Federal Software QA Engineer

*** MUST BE A US CITIZEN TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION***

What You'll Do

Cisco Workspace for Government is a US Government initiative to provide Cisco software products to our most sensitive customers. It has a groundbreaking new approach to providing software products to our customers in an easily consumable platform. Our Cisco WorkSpace for Government PMO is in search of an exceptional lead Software QA Engineer with a real passion for building great things and taking on important problems for both Cisco and our customers. At Cisco, your potential to tackle big problems and build phenomenal products will change the world and make our nation safer.

Become a productive technical lead for a small, highly motivated engineering team.

Bring innovation and order to complex technical situations.

Make core technical contributions to software systems implementing customer-oriented very secure user-facing applications.

Responsibilities:

• Establish the portfolio-level testing strategy (set the direction for the testing efforts)

o Test Automation Strategy - manual and automated tests. Focus on ROI.

o Artifacts and Documentation

o Testing levels - unit testing, integration testing, system testing, E2E

o Testing techniques and methods (decision table, equivalence partitioning, negative testing, etc.)

o Bug tracking

o Testing environment standards

o Testing resources/infrastructure

• Drive test implementation standards to ensure consistency across testing approach, development, and maintenance.

• Establish standards for testing documentation including test strategy, test plan, test procedure, requirements traceability, defect reporting, etc.

• Participate in test automation code reviews to ensure implementation standards are followed.

• Work with DevOps team to create, deploy, and maintain testing environments.

• Help avoid test maintenance issues, inconsistent test writing approach, and automated testing cost.

• Develop and maintain implementation of the testing pyramid for all testing.

• Own the release testing efforts for the program releases and deliverables.

• Establish a test automation strategy.

• Establish quality gates - plan the execution of different tests at different frequencies for different test events.

• Lead QA teams in creating estimates for testing efforts.

• Work closely with the software architect(s) to establish collaboration between QA and the development teams.

• Work with technical leads and stakeholders to ensure proper application integration and delivery.

• Keep up to date with the latest methods and techniques in the software testing industry and deliver them to other engineers as required throughout the product lifecycle.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in collaborating closely with cross-functional Agile teams, developers, testers, and various business units across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

• Comprehensive experience in Test Automation script development, execution, and monitoring.

• Experience using Bitbucket or GitHub for version control.

• Experience using Jira or other similar project management tools.

• Experience using Xray or other similar test management tools.

• Good knowledge in Agile development and testing process.

• Good knowledge in OOPS programming concepts and experience with languages like Java and Python.

• Significant experience in conducting code reviews.

• Experience in creating and maintaining custom Automation frameworks with tools like TestNG, JMeter, Selenium, and Robot Testing Framework.

• Experience creating and maintaining bug tracking and reporting systems.

• Experience manual API testing tools like Postman or SoapUI.

• Experience with UI testing using Selenium.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of Load/Performance testing concepts.

• Experience with Cisco Smart Software Manager

• Experience leading a testing team.

• Experience in go/no-go decision-making for software releases (based on analysis of testing results to ensure the readiness and quality of software products).

• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays, and learns, but our edge comes from our people.

Cisco is proud to be an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

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Benefits and Perks

We strive to keep our teams happy and healthy. Many roles have the option to be Remote or Hybrid. Cisco provides competitive pay, excellent medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) match, 20 days of paid time off plus holidays, support for parents and paid time to volunteer.

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Cisco COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements

The health and safety of Cisco's employees, customers, and partners is a top priority. Our goal is to protect and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 infection for strong business resiliency during the pandemic. Therefore, Cisco may require new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if the role requires business-related travel, meeting with customers/partners (including visiting third-party sites on behalf of Cisco), attending trade events, and Cisco office entry, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law, and in countries where COVID-19 vaccination is legally required. The company will consider legally required accommodations/exceptions for medical, religious, and other reasons as per the requirements of the role and in accordance with applicable law. Additional information will be provided to candidates about the requirements and accommodation process at the offer time based on region.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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