Who we Are The Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) focuses on empowering the world to reach its full potential, securely through its products. The SBG Security team supports this mission by building thoughtful partnerships with our internal partners to drive security strategy alignment across the SBG portfolio. Through these efforts, we deliver simple, effective security solutions for our internal customers that meet both market and industry expectations. Our team’s mission is to become our internal customers’ most trusted partners by building best-in-class security programs that shape the market with our research, make it easy for our customer teams within Cisco to develop secure software, protect our most valuable information and customer assets, and enable SBG employees to work securely as they deliver Cisco Secure products including Duo, Umbrella, SecureX, Talos, Cisco Secure Connect, StealthWatch, Tetration, and beyond. What you’ll do * Partner closely with product management, UX and Dev team to identify, scope, estimate work for team. * Contribute to POCs and perform quantitative and qualitative technology comparisons. * Be part of a highly motivated team involved in design, develop and maintain automation script for the security business group. * Mentor junior engineers to produce their best work. What You'll Deliver * Define UI and API automation strategy for the application in collaboration with development, product and QA teams * Identifying test cases and test scenarios, from the requirements * Writing, and maintaining Automation test scripts with the aim to carry out automation test runs as part of CI/CD * Execute and monitor automated test cases, report bugs and share reports * investigating problems in software as a result of testing * Enhancement of existing regression scripts * Implement CI/CD pipelines to run the automation test suites with the development code deployment and nightly * Identify the need for new automation tools and work toward the creation of a better ecosystem which promotes automation first strategy * Able to carry out execute a QA program independently * Evaluate and setup framework/tool appropriate for any projects * Able to communicate with different stake holders Who You Are * Strong experience in automation testing using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or WebDriver IO * Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes with an Understanding the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Models - AGILE, Sprint, etc. * Strong grip on programming concepts with expertise in a programming language like JavaScript, Python or Java (JavaScript/Typescript preferred) * Experience in writing test automation scripts and a good understanding of standard automation frameworks * Experience in Test suite optimization for coverage, efficiency, and execution * Knowledge of CI tools like Maven, Jenkins, GitHub, and related build deployment processes * Hands-on experience in API Testing (HTTP and RESTful web services) and API automation tools * Working experience in database testing with various databases like SQL/MongoDB, etc. * Nice to have Performance Testing Experience with Jmeter \#WeAreCisco #WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all. Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best. We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do! Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us! Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.