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Meet the Team
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Cisco Isovalent builds open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud-native infrastructure. The flagship technology, Cilium, is the choice of numerous industry-leading global organizations.
Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices and data across public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations - anywhere customers need it. Designed and built with AI in mind from the start, Hypershield enables organizations to achieve security outcomes beyond what has been possible with humans alone.
Your Impact
We seek an innovative QA engineer to test features associated with Hypershield’s management plane, which controls the security assets deployed by customers. Our Ideal candidate will have the ability to identify bugs and negative patterns/trends as well as optimize testing with carefully crafted passes. They will communicate effortlessly with collaborators, particularly when clarifications are needed on software behavior.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure we connect together network events of significance, AI engines, the generation, administration, deployment, enforcement and orchestration of security policies
- Validate feature sets that enrich the customer experience ranging from deployment to configuration, monitoring, logging, and storage
- Identify areas that need testing, develop methodologies to implement them
- Collaborate with Developers, Project Managers and Program managers, creating transparency into our quality and defining DevTest strategy for the team.
Minimum Qualifications for this Role:
- Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience
- 5+ years of professional QA experience with at least 3 years testing SaaS solutions
- Testing farmwork development
- Golang, Typescript , AWS
- Experience in the network/ security domain
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Ownership of major quality components of a product
- Extensive End to end SaaS applications testing
- Ability to use AWS or other public cloud infrastructure for deployment, spinup, install, configure, etc. as needed, independently
- Prior experience testing products in Linux based environments, fluency with Linux command line
- Networking fundamentals and firewall policies knowledge
- Ability to read programming code
- Define and execute manual tests, while paving the way for automation
- Working as part of a remote or distributed team
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 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.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 7 years of related experience, or master's degree and 4 years, or PhD and 1 year
- At least 5 years of professional QA experience
- At least 3 years testing SaaS solutions
- Test framework development experience
- Golang experience
- TypeScript experience
- AWS experience
- Experience in the network or security domain
- Experience testing products in Linux-based environments
- Fluency with the Linux command line
- Networking fundamentals and firewall policy knowledge
- Ability to read programming code
- Ability to define and execute manual tests while advancing automation
- Experience working as part of a remote or distributed team
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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