QA Engineer

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QA Engineer

IronPort® Systems, Inc. is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.

This QA Engineer will be a primary contributor to the test effort for the IronPort Security Management Appliance, part of IronPort's full line of high availability, massive performance and easy to use network security appliances. The QA Engineer will work with Engineering and Product Management to review product requirements and engineering specifications and will write and execute test plans and test cases based on these documents.

Primary Responsibilities:
* Create and review test cases and test plans based on functional specifications and marketing requirements documents
* Execute test cases and test plans using internal API test tool or manual execution as needed.
* Identify, isolate and document software defects, either independently or with QA/Development peers
* Analysis and diagnosis of issues found in the field.
* Mentor junior team members
* Provide status and escalate issues to Team Lead as needed

Required Experience and Skills:

* MUST HAVE SERVER-SIDE, UNIX BASED QA EXPERIENCE
* Minimum of 6 years experience in QA
* Proven, referenceable experience as a White/Grey box QA Engineer
* Strong command of some UNIX variant
* API level testing using custom test harnesses
* Solid skills in python or other programming language
* Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
* Experience testing RDBMS-based applications
* Experience testing server applications
* Proven track record of developing test plans and test cases from engineering specifications and product marketing documents
* Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization

Required Experience and Skills:
* FreeBSD
* SQL
* Knowledge of Routing, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SSH and Telnet

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