# Software Quality Engineer, Secure Firewall **Company**: Cisco **Location**: Fulton, MD **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $138,100.00 to $198,200.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/Fulton-Maryland-US/Software-Quality-Engineer--Secure-Firewall_2021788?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0edae0fb-5bf ## Description As a Software Quality Engineer, you will independently own assigned test areas and validate complex, end-to-end customer workflows across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. You will work closely with software development, platform, automation, product, and release teams throughout the development lifecycle. 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. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree + 5 years of experience in software quality engineering, system testing, network engineering, or a related discipline. - Experience designing test scenarios, selecting appropriate methodologies, and configuring the 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. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience testing network-security products such as firewalls, intrusion prevention or detection systems, secure gateways, or comparable security platforms. - Strong knowledge of TCP/IP and network troubleshooting. - Practical experience with Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking, LANs, link aggregation, and interface configurations. - Experience using packet-analysis and diagnostic tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, system logs, debuggers, or equivalent utilities. - Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across geographically distributed teams. - Ability to investigate complex failures across multiple interacting components and communicate findings clearly. - Experience with Cisco Secure Firewall, including FTD, FMC, ASA, FXOS, Snort, or related technologies. - Experience with Python test frameworks such as pyATS, pytest, or comparable automation platforms. - Familiarity with REST APIs, Git-based development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automated test execution systems. - Experience validating upgrades, rollback, backward compatibility, configuration migration, and long-running production-like workloads. - Experience with performance, scale, stress, soak, resiliency, or fault-injection testing. - Familiarity with virtualization and cloud platforms such as VMware, KVM, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. - Experience with traffic-generation, protocol-simulation, or network-performance tools. - Knowledge of security threats, traffic inspection, identity integration, telemetry, logging, and observability. - Cisco networking or security certification, such as CCNP Enterprise or CCNP Security. Benefits: - Medical, dental and vision insurance - 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution - Paid parental leave - Short and long-term disability coverage - Basic life insurance - 10 paid holidays per full calendar year - 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday - Paid year-end holiday shutdown - 4 paid days off for personal wellness - 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees - Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees - 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter - Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer ## Skills ### Required - Python - Linux - Unix - network engineering - software quality engineering - system testing ### Nice to have - TCP/IP - network troubleshooting - Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking - Wireshark - tcpdump - Cisco Secure Firewall - pyATS - pytest - REST APIs - Git-based development workflows - CI/CD pipelines --- Source: [Apply at cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/Fulton-Maryland-US/Software-Quality-Engineer--Secure-Firewall_2021788?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)