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Software QA Engineer(Remote)
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About this role
The application window is expected to close on: 09/28/2026 This role follows a remote work model.
Meet the Team
Isovalent , now part of Cisco, is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF . Cisco Isovalent builds open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud-native infrastructure. The flagship technology, Cilium, is the choice of numerous industry-leading global organizations.
Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices and data across public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations - anywhere customers need it. Designed and built with AI in mind from the start, Hypershield enables organizations to achie ve security outcomes beyond what has been possible with humans alone.
Your Impact
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.
Minimum Qualifications
• 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.
Preferred Qualifications
• 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.
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. 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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $155,000.00 to $222,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and 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
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
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Salary insight
The midpoint of this range ($189k) is about 6% below the median disclosed salary for San Francisco roles listed on ForgeApply ($200k across 8,661 jobs).
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