# Software Quality Engineer, Secure Firewall

The application window is expected to close on: 11/12/2026This position is open to candidates in Fulton, MD or Austin, TX. Meet the Team Cisco’s Network Security System and Integration Test (SIT) and System Test (ST) teams ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of our Secure Firewall solutions, serving as a vital line of defense for our enterprise customers. Your Impact As a Software Quality Engineer, you will independently own assigned test areas and validate complex, end-to-end customer workflows across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. You will combine hands-on system testing, automation, network-security expertise, and disciplined defect investigation to identify integration and regression risks before release. You will work closely with software development, platform, automation, product, and release teams throughout the development lifecycle. This role requires strong technical judgment, execution ownership, and clear communication of product-quality risks. In this role, you will: Develop and execute risk-based test plans for Cisco Secure Firewall products and their management, data-plane, platform, and ecosystem integrations. Validate end-to-end workflows

- **Id**: 981380
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-quality-engineer-secure-firewall>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Fulton, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T21:17:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:03:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 52
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9564
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 289
- **Ghost share**: 0.048
- **Stale share**: 0.464
- **Repost share**: 0.097
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 25
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 155000
- **Max**: 256000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 256000

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **VPN** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **BGP** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **KVM** — Optional: yes
- **OSPF** — Optional: yes
- **Pytest** — Optional: yes
- **Rest API** — Optional: yes
- **Snort** — Optional: yes
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: yes
- **Tcpdump** — Optional: yes
- **VMWare** — Optional: yes
- **Wireshark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 2
- **Flags**: repost
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T21:17:55Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-29T06:43:46Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-21T19:38:12Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-01T03:27:42Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-03T05:56:28Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.379
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:5, repost:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 256000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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