Senior Software Engineer in Test (Network Security, Performance), Hybrid, RTP, NC
About The Position
The Senior Software Engineer in Test will work on Cisco’s MX (cloud-managed security and SD-WAN) QA team, ensuring end-to-end quality for Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst products. The team tests customer use cases, integrations, scalability, stress, and longevity, and qualifies security services and capabilities—including malware detection, URL filtering, web security, intrusion prevention, threat modeling, SD-WAN, and SaaS/IaaS security—through a single Dashboard. The products serve more than a million networks, making quality a high priority. The role develops a strong understanding of Meraki MX use cases and customer workflows, represents QA in requirements and design discussions, and creates and executes test strategies with results and quality metrics. It also builds and maintains automation for CI/CD and regression coverage, and contributes innovative AI-driven ideas and feature development using a Test Driven Development approach.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree combined with 7 years of related experience in software development engineering in software testing; or a Master of Science degree in Computer Science combined with 4 years of related experience; or a PhD combined with 1 year of related experience.
- Experience testing software network security features such as intrusion prevention/detection, content filtering, advanced malware protection, geolocation, SSL, and TLS, as well as performance KPIs.
- Experience with how traffic generators such as Spirent, IXIA, and TREX work.
- Automation or development experience.
- Experience writing feature development code in a programming language such as Python, Ruby, C++, or Golang.
- Experience with AI coding tools and generative-AI prompting techniques.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience testing SD-WAN and routing reliability, including policy-based routing, dynamic path selection, Auto VPN failover, and WAN load balancing.
- Feature bug fixing in firmware, backend, or UI.
- Background in distributed cloud environments.
- Experience developing frameworks for CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Develop a strong understanding of Cisco Meraki MX use cases and workflows in customer environments.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and development teams to represent QA in requirements and design discussions.
- Create and execute test strategies, reporting results and metrics to ensure feature quality.
- Build and maintain automation scripts to support CI/CD and improve regression test coverage.
- Apply AI-driven ideas and contribute to feature development using a Test Driven Development approach.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Paid holidays
- Floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- Paid personal wellness days
- Paid vacation or flexible vacation time off, depending on employee classification
- Paid sick time
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional paid volunteer days
- Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales employees
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
