Software/Hardware Quality Assurance Engineer Job at CISCO

[breroger]

CISCO’s IronPort group is looking for a topnotch Software/Hardware Quality
Assurance Engineer with expertise in FreeBSD. Please contact me if you are
interested.

Regards,
Brent
breroger at cisco.com


Software/Hardware Quality Assurance Engineer

Location – San Bruno, California
 
Description:
Department Overview:
Cisco IronPort, a part of Cisco’s Security Technologies Business Unit
(STBU), email and web security appliances protect organizations of all sizes
against spam, viruses, malware and other Internet threats – combining
powerful performance with preventive and reactive security measures that are
easy to deploy and manage. IronPort delivers industry-changing, next
generation Web Security, Email Security, and device management and reporting
solutions by enabling unprecedented visibility and control of applications
and content – by user, not just IP address.
About the team
Common Platform Technologies (CPT) is a cross functional group that gets to
work on all of Cisco IronPort's products (Email Security Appliance(ESA),
Security Management Appliance (SMA), Web Security Appliance (WSA)). CPT is
responsible for the substrate of the Cisco IronPort product line. We do
common hardware, low-level device drivers, user interface APIs, operating
system architecture for AsyncOS, and all of the meaty components at the
heart of Cisco IronPort's products. CPT is a fast-moving organization that
requires a diverse set of skills. We live and breathe FreeBSD, python, and
various other technologies. Technology is part of our name!
Releasing on a very rapid cadence, CPT QA spends very little time validating
user interfaces or rerunning tests on different platforms. Instead, we have
new hardware and complex backend infrastructure systems that require an
ability to grasp challenging abstract concepts and form strategies to
efficiently qualify and understand these products.
 
Technology: FreeBSD, Python, Embedded OS, BIOS, Firmwares, OS kernel
drivers, NFS, Samba, DNS, Apache, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, SSH, IPv6p,
virtualization
Assignments
• Certify enterprise class hardware appliances and embedded real time OS
according to a specification.
• Perform reviewing of product requirements and functional specification,
develop, execute, and automate test specification and test cases.
• Determine and scope test requirements and plan within the framework of a
program independently and take initiatives and responsibilities for projects
while collaborating with others.
• Work with cross functional teams in the entire life cycle of software
development including Development, Manufacturing, Product
Management/Marketing, and point product teams.
• Work with platform QA teams (ESA, SMA, WSA) to deliver product releases
with high quality in multiple levels of system software projects.
• Be an integral part of QA team while continuously participating in
improving process and test methodologies, execution efficiency, and
effectiveness.
Requirements and skills
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software and hardware
testing.
• Hands on working experience in UNIX server (FreeBSD preferred) hardware
and software configuration and setup (NFS, Samba, DNS, Apache, etc)
including networking and hardware debugging and troubleshooting experience.
• Have working knowledge of routing and network protocols including DNS,
SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, Telnet.
• Have working knowledge of PC server internals including RAID subsystems,
IPMI, PCI interfaces.
• Working knowledge in scripting languages (Python, Shell, Perl)
• Good understanding of hardware and software performance testing is a
strong plus.
• Have working experience with hardware manufacturing and vendor and sound
understanding of the process is a plus.
• Experience in Network security is a plus.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills to communicate
effectively across all groups in the organization.
• Eagerness to learn new technologies with a passion for product quality and
enjoy partnering with developers to solve issues and create solutions.
• Ability to accurately identify real world software AND hardware use cases.
• Excellent time management skills to multi-task across multiple
simultaneous projects, tasks, defects, product releases.