Federal Software QA Engineer

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What You'll Do

Cisco Workspace for Government is a US Government initiative to provide Cisco software products to our most sensitive customers. It has a groundbreaking new approach to providing software products to our customers in an easily consumable platform. Our Cisco WorkSpace for Government PMO is in search of an exceptional lead Software QA Engineer with a real passion for building great things and taking on important problems for both Cisco and our customers. At Cisco, your potential to tackle big problems and build phenomenal products will change the world and make our nation safer.

Become a productive technical lead for a small, highly motivated engineering team.

Bring innovation and order to complex technical situations.

Make core technical contributions to software systems implementing customer-oriented very secure user-facing applications.

Responsibilities:

1. Establish the portfolio-level testing strategy (set the direction for the testing efforts)
2. Drive test implementation standards to ensure consistency across testing approach, development, and maintenance.
3. Establish standards for testing documentation including test strategy, test plan, test procedure, requirements traceability, defect reporting, etc.
4. Participate in test automation code reviews to ensure implementation standards are followed.
5. Work with DevOps team to create, deploy, and maintain testing environments.
6. Help avoid test maintenance issues, inconsistent test writing approach, and automated testing cost.
7. Develop and maintain implementation of the testing pyramid for all testing.
8. Own the release testing efforts for the program releases and deliverables.
9. Establish a test automation strategy.
10. Establish quality gates – plan the execution of different tests at different frequencies for different test events.
11. Lead QA teams in creating estimates for testing efforts.
12. Work closely with the software architect(s) to establish collaboration between QA and the development teams.
13. Work with technical leads and stakeholders to ensure proper application integration and delivery.
14. Keep up to date with the latest methods and techniques in the software testing industry and deliver them to other engineers as required throughout the product lifecycle.

Required Skills:

1. Proficiency in collaborating closely with cross-functional Agile teams, developers, testers, and various business units across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
2. Comprehensive experience in Test Automation script development, execution, and monitoring.
3. Experience using Bitbucket or GitHub for version control.
4. Experience using Jira or other similar project management tools.
5. Experience using Xray or other similar test management tools.
6. Good knowledge in Agile development and testing process.
7. Good knowledge in OOPS programming concepts and experience with languages like Java and Python.
8. Significant experience in conducting code reviews.
9. Experience in creating and maintaining custom Automation frameworks with tools like TestNG, JMeter, Selenium, and Robot Testing Framework.
10. Experience creating and maintaining bug tracking and reporting systems.
11. Experience with manual API testing tools like Postman or SoapUI.
12. Experience with UI testing using Selenium.
13. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

1. Understanding of Load/Performance testing concepts.
2. Experience with Cisco Smart Software Manager.
3. Experience leading a testing team.
4. Experience in go/no-go decision-making for software releases (based on analysis of testing results to ensure the readiness and quality of software products).
5. Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts.

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Benefits and Perks

We strive to keep our teams happy and healthy. Many roles have the option to be Remote or Hybrid. Cisco provides competitive pay, excellent medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) match, 20 days of paid time off plus holidays, support for parents and paid time to volunteer.

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