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UNITED STATES.CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE

The Security Applications QA Manager will be responsible for qualifying solutions that combat email threats. This a dynamic area with the industry teeming with innovation and opportunity to define real solutions that go beyond traditional approaches. To own this responsibility for Cisco will be challenging, requiring passion and creativity as an individual as well as team building and delivering on commitments. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to build innovative and high performing teams, provide a consistently firm quality vision, manage expectations, people, and projects in a quickly changing environment, one in which the threats are continuously evolving. Working effectively with Development, Operations, and Product Management is key. Cisco Security Applications is where you can deliver technology combinations that span network, cloud, and client endpoint solutions, protecting more than a billion people world-wide Security Applications is the epicenter for threat defense in Cisco, and now is the time to join our efforts to change the security landscape!

SecApps QA Engineers test code both manually and with automated tools. We identify integration bugs before the code is written, we solve complex testing challenges and write resilient automated tests. We work closely with development and operations to review and guide technical implementations, product testability, and product deployments. Secapps QA successfully releases 2-4 releases per month that directly impact millions of end users.

The successful individual will embody many of the following attributes:
- Highly motivated and creative individual
- Enjoys building and leading teams
- Be excited by protecting our customers from the continual evolving threats on the internet
- Wants to learn from outstanding peers
- Cares about influencing the work environment for the better - Team Morale, Physical Surroundings, Process
- Responsible for ensuring quality of the products we deliver.
- Assesses risk, says â noâ when its not popular, and effectively articulates the reasoning behind QA decisions.
- Hands-on planning and management of projects. Develop project task estimates, deliverable and milestone task assignment. Responsible for managing the capacity and skill-set demands of the team.
- Find, hire, mentor, and retain talented team members.
- Assimilate and comprehend the technical details of projects in development in order to better plan their qualification and and delivery.
- Define and execute a vision for test automation.

Required Experience and Skills:
- 5+ years in a quality assurance position as an individual contributor.
- 5+ years in a management position (leading teams, defining schedules, proven release track record).
- Experience with complex, high-performance hosted environments is a plus.
- Knowledge of hosted services and horizontally-scaled distributed systems is a plus.
- Understanding of operational procedures in large-scale data centers a plus.
- Experience owning the release decision, and making the unpopular decision in the face of stubborn opposition.
- Agile experience is a plus

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Experienced - Manager