Software QA Engineer(Remote)
About The Position
As a QA Engineer, you will lead the quality assurance efforts for Hypershield’s management plane to ensure the seamless orchestration, administration, and enforcement of critical customer security assets. You will validate complex feature sets—spanning from network event integration and AI engine performance to logging and storage—to guarantee a robust and reliable user experience. By designing and implementing strategic testing methodologies, you will proactively identify negative trends and software defects before they impact the production environment. You will collaborate cross-functionally with developers and program leads to define comprehensive DevTest strategies, fostering transparency and driving superior product quality across the entire development lifecycle. Ultimately, you will empower the organization to deliver high-impact security solutions by bridging the gap between technical software behavior and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 0 years of related experience
- Experience testing SaaS or distributed applications in cloud environments, including API and end-to-end testing.
- Experience programming in Go, TypeScript or Python
- Experience designing and executing manual test cases and developing automated tests using Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, or a similar framework.
- Experience working with Linux environments and troubleshooting, with knowledge of networking and security fundamentals.
Nice To Haves
- Ownership of major quality components of a product.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or other public cloud infrastructure for deployment, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with firewall policies and security testing.
- Experience working with containers or Kubernetes environments.
- Experience working as part of a remote or distributed team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the quality assurance efforts for Hypershield’s management plane.
- Ensure seamless orchestration, administration, and enforcement of critical customer security assets.
- Validate complex feature sets, including network event integration, AI engine performance, logging, and storage.
- Design and implement strategic testing methodologies.
- Proactively identify negative trends and software defects.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with developers and program leads to define comprehensive DevTest strategies.
- Foster transparency and drive superior product quality across the entire development lifecycle.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- grants of Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 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 (non-exempt employees)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
