Technical Lead - QA

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  • Location:
    Offsite, San Jose, California, US
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Compensation Range
    130400 USD - 232900 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security
  • Job Id
    1440553
The application window is expected to close on: 7/10/2025 
 
  
Meet the Team 

The Cisco Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network security services, which enables the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Cisco Security is passionate about the SIG and SASE world and our product portfolio includes cloud firewall, Web proxy, Zero Trust Proxy, NaaS integrations, and inspection services as highly available distributed systems using cloud engineering practices. We are seeking a strong developer who can participate in architecture design, technical requirements definition and engineering execution. This individual will be collaborating with Senior Leadership.
 
Your Impact 

This role is for a QA lead. This person will be the technical leader of a team that is responsible for ensuring maximal code coverage with unit tests and the smooth delivery of the software into a production environment.
  • Day-to-day will be creating automated tests in CI
  • Mentor/lead QA team of 2 eventually.
  • Will participate in stand-up meetings. 
  • Will work on Jira tracking backlogs.
  • Coordinating strategy with other Hypershield Devops leads.
 
Minimum Qualifications 
  • Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in computer science or a related field of study with a minimum of 5 + years’ experience within Quality Assurance
  • Testing experience with containerization tools like Kubernetes or OpenShift and cloud-based platforms such as AWS
  • Experience deploying and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Linux command-line experience.
 
Preferred Qualifications 
  • Experience using ML to accelerate Devops functionality.
  • 8+ years in a lead QA role, experience owning end to end testing lifecycles.
  • Ability to define and execute manual tests, while paving the way for automation.
  • Ability to distill complex technical information to the leadership team.
  • Ability to guide and mentor junior Devops engineers. 
 

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. Simply put – we power the future. 
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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When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

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