{"id":1209522,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-senior-software-development-test-engineer-remote","title":"Senior Software Development Test Engineer (Remote)","company":{"id":90,"name":"Cisco Systems","domain":"cisco.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":92,"open_postings":204,"ghost_share":0.01,"stale_share":0.446,"repost_share":0.059,"time_to_fill_p50_days":16,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Jose, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":167700,"max":282000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":282000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Cilium","optional":false},{"name":"eBPF","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"Go","optional":true},{"name":"OpenShift","optional":true},{"name":"Rancher","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T04:25:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"The application window is expected to close on: 11/29/2026This is a remote position working from anywhere in the USA.\nMeet the Team\nIsovalent, now part of Cisco, is the company founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF. Cisco Isovalent is building the next generation of products for securing workloads and AI infrastructure using advanced technologies across Linux and Windows.\nOur software agent team builds high-performance, secure, and lightweight software agents that run across Unix, Linux, and Windows environments and multiple architectures, including aarch64, x86_64, s390x, ppc64_le, and SPARC. These agents operate across traditional and modern workloads in on-premises and cloud environments, including virtual machines and major container orchestration platforms.\nOur agents collect rich information about workloads, including network traffic and system activities such as processes, users, and file access. They enforce network policies from a central controller, monitor and protect container-based deployments, and provide runtime security capabilities designed to mitigate high-severity vulnerabilities.\nYou will be an integral member of the software agent team and work closely with software engineers and cross-functional teams throughout the product development lifecycle, from initial design and development through testing and deployment into production environments.\nYour Impact\nAs a Software Development Test Engineer, you will define, design, and develop testing strategies, frameworks, automation, and environments that continuously measure and improve the quality of Cisco Isovalent's software agents.\nYou will build testing capabilities designed to operate continuously and over extended periods of time, helping identify functional, performance, reliability, and integration issues before they affect production environments. You will develop automated testing approaches for software operating across operating systems, architectures, virtual machines, containers, and cloud environments.\nYou will work closely with software engineers throughout the development lifecycle to understand new capabilities, define appropriate testing strategies, identify defects, and improve overall product quality. Your work will help ensure the reliability and security of software providing workload visibility, network policy enforcement, container protection, and runtime security at scale.\nKey Responsibilities\nDefine and develop testing strategies, frameworks, automation, and environments for software agents across Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms.\nDesign automated tests that continuously evaluate software functionality, reliability, performance, and quality over extended periods of time.\nBuild and maintain automated testing infrastructure for virtual machines, containers, and cloud-based environments.\nDevelop testing approaches for software agents that collect workload and network information, enforce network policies, protect containerized environments, and provide runtime security capabilities.\nIntegrate automated testing into the software development and product delivery lifecycle.\nAnalyze test results, identify software defects and reliability issues, and collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve problems.\nCollaborate with software engineers and cross-functional teams from product conceptualization through production deployment.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.\nExperience testing complex software products or systems.\nExperience with Kubernetes\nExperience developing or implementing automated software testing.\nExperience working across the software development lifecycle and shipping software products into production.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience designing and developing complex software testing frameworks, strategies, or infrastructure.\nExperience with OpenShift and Rancher.\nExperience with Terraform or other infrastructure automation technologies.\nExperience testing software across virtual machines, containers, cloud, or distributed environments.\nKnowledge of runtime security concepts.\nKnowledge of host-based firewall concepts.\nExperience programming in Golang.\nExperience with continuous testing, long-running reliability testing, or automated performance testing.\nExperience working in agile development environments and collaborating closely with software engineering teams.\n#Li-RN1\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00 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.\nU.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.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-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\n\nExempt 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)\n\n80 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\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.\nThe applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:\nNew York City Metro Area:\n$167,700.00 - $282,000.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:\n$149,100.00 - $250,900.00* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.\n** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9066,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual bonuses","Equity","Life insurance","Parental leave","Restricted stock units","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Network Security","Unified Communications","Network Equipment","Observability & APM"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T03:01:22Z"}],"liveness":{"score":75,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.836,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":16,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":282000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-senior-software-development-test-engineer-remote","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-senior-software-development-test-engineer-remote.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T08:09:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"search","counted_by":"address","units_charged":0,"used_today":0,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":null,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}