Senior QA Engineer - Permanent - London

Company Description:

Formed in California in 1984, CISCO is a manufacturing company, which creates and sells technical networking equipment including routers, switches and hubs.

A global brand, currently operating in over 165 companies, with 63,000 employees and almost 500 offices, the very nature of the CISCO enterprise calls out for a host of specialist professionals, proficient in areas from sales to engineering.

CISCO prides itself on its ability to ?connect people locally and globally?, creating a human network, by contributing to the plumbing of the integral phenomenon that is, the internet.

Across its service segments, CISCO consistently holds an astounding market share over competing companies, and is the only brand to lead across all segments.

This achievement includes a 64.2 per cent of the Digital Video: IPTV segment and 53.3 per cent of the Wireless: LAN segment. CISCO?s minimum hold is 31.5 per cent over the Security segment, which is still a substantial market lead. However, this success has not happened by chance; since its birth in the mid-80s, CISCO has kept one eye on the networking industry, the ever-evolving nature of the internet, and computing.

Considering and applying these market transitions within the design and development of their products, CISCO succeeds to be the preferred innovative force within the networking sector.

As the internet continues to expand at such a rapid rate, the future at CISCO involves forecasting market acceleration, expansion and entry to maintain its reputation for providing the extraordinary customer satisfaction levels, which are so central to CISCO?s culture.

Job Description:

Introduction
Cisco/ScanSafe is the leading global provider of SaaS web security. Powered by heuristics technology Outbreak Intelligence, Cisco/ScanSafe provides a comprehensive suite of web security services through a scalable web processing centre that guarantees high performance, best-of-breed protection. . Every day our technology scans over 5 billion web requests, going far beyond the capabilities of traditional security techniques to protect both, office based and roaming workers around the globe.
We provide an environment for innovation and self-development:
- Quarterly kickoffs to discuss new ideas, drive innovation and shape our roadmap
- Agile process that helps, not hinders ? we help you make things happen
- Change is constant; we are always investing in cutting edge, brand new hardware and software
- Hackathons ? time for developers and QAs to have fun, discover and innovate

As well as continual technical development, you will be richly rewarded with a highly competitive salary, extensive range of benefits and the encouragement to learn and develop.

Role
You will work as a member of the ScanSafe Quality Assurance team participating in the complete product development cycle starting from analysis, architecture, design, coding, testing of software. You will be responsible for QA efforts on assigned scrum projects, working closely with the developers developing test strategy, automation test scripts and executing the test scripts.
The successful candidate must have the ability to work on tight deadlines. You will be expected to be able to lead the definition and execution of quality initiatives.
You will be a pro-active team member who can help build future direction for QA and help to implement it.

You Must have,
- Minimum of 5 years? experience as a QA Engineer, with BS degree in CS/CE/IT or equivalent
- Java web application and service application testing
- Working knowledge of Testing methodologies
? Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to assist engineers with debugging and verification of fixes
- Knowledge of Unit and functional testing tools and frameworks like jUnit, Fitnesse, Selenium etc.
- Planning, development, modification and execution of test strategy (plan, test-cases, etc.)
- Experience of working in an Agile development environment
- Developing and executing test plans, test cases and test schedules, and identify project milestones and risks
- Regression testing, logging, tracking, triaging of defects
- Participating in test case automation efforts; designing , developing and maintaining test automation frameworks
- Tracking and reporting of testing status against plan and defining/tracking of QA metrics
- Possess excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Proven track record of testing high performance, scalable, business -critical platforms

Desirable skills
- Networking experience on Windows, Unix/Linux an advantage
- Good understanding of WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, HTTPS, DNS; experience with traffic captures
- Understanding of HTTP proxy servers
- Experience in real-time traffic testing (firewalls, port forwarding, etc.)
- Knowledge of LDAP, Windows Active Directory, Group Policies etc.
- Experience with Continuous integration tools like Jenkins

Source: http://jobs.techweekeurope.co.uk/19001/senior-qa-engineer/

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