Quality Assurance Engineer at Cisco in Alpharetta, GA

The QA Engineer will be responsible for testing software for a Network Security Application.

The role of the QA Engineer is to design and execute Test Plans and Test Cases that help to ensure that the organization delivers a high quality product to the customer. The QA Engineer will be part of an Agile software development team and must have a basic understanding of the Agile software development methodologies. The QA Engineer is expected to be an advocate for the customer and to provide an assessment of software performance and quality, based on test results.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Integrating testing work and tasks to story breakdown.
• Leading and working with the rest of the team on testing strategy and plan.
• Ability to automate test cases or partner with other team members on automation plan.
• Ability to design data set plans to support testing scenarios
• Active learning of product capabilities and customer needs
• Work with QA leadership and other QA team members create and enforce quality standards
• Attention to detail on defect creation and the metrics they support
• Ability to derive quality metrics from the development environment
• Developing and executing Test Cases (Automated is the preference, but Manual when necessary)
• Working with the team to analyze test results and debug problems found
• Communicating testing progress and problems found to the Team Lead and/or ScrumMaster
• Documenting problems found in a defect tracking system
• Reviewing and updating Test Plans & Test Cases on a regular basis
• The QA Engineer must also possess good communication and leadership skills.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Good communication and leadership skills
• Must have a solid understanding of the different levels of software testing
• 3+ years of software testing experience
• 2+ years of experience developing & executing Performance Tests
• Experience using Open Source Performance/Load Testing Tools (e.g. Gatling, Grinder, JMeter)
• 3+ years of experience working in test environments that require networking and TCP/IP skills
• 3+ years of experience working with the Linux OS
• 2+ years of experience testing software in virtual machine environments (e.g. VMWare, KVM)
• 2+ years of experience using test automation frameworks (e.g. Cucumber, Junit, Selenium, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience writing code to automate manual Test Cases
• 2+ years of experience using network traffic generators (e.g. Breaking Point, Avalanche, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience using open source network tools (tcpdump, nmap, wireshark)
• 2+ years of experience working on an Agile software development team

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or Engineering is required
• Certified Software Quality Engineer certification is a plus
• Cisco CCNA Certification is a plus