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Senior Software Engineer in Test (Network Security, Performance), Hybrid, RTP, NC

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4 days ago
Durham, NC, USASenior
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Base Salary

$139k - $204k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop understanding of Cisco Meraki MX use cases and customer workflows.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers and development teams in requirements and design discussions.
  • Create and execute test strategies and report test results and quality metrics.
  • Build and maintain automation scripts to improve CI/CD and regression test coverage.
  • Test customer use cases, integrations, scalability, stress, longevity, security services, and performance.
  • Contribute to feature development using Test Driven Development and AI-driven ideas.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related software testing experience, or a Master of Science degree plus 4 years, or a PhD plus 1 year.
  • Experience testing network-security features including intrusion prevention/detection, content filtering, advanced malware protection, geolocation, SSL, and TLS, along with performance KPIs.
  • Experience using traffic generators such as Spirent, IXIA, and TREX.
  • Automation and software development experience.
  • Experience writing feature-development code in Python, Ruby, C++, or Golang.
  • Experience with AI coding tools and generative-AI prompting techniques.
  • Preferred experience testing SD-WAN and routing reliability, including policy-based routing, dynamic path selection, Auto VPN failover, and WAN load balancing.
  • Preferred experience fixing bugs in firmware, backend, or UI; working in distributed cloud environments; and developing CI/CD pipeline frameworks.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role at the RTP, North Carolina office.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
  • Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
  • Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
  • Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.

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