Principal Software Engineer in Test Automation (Strata Logging Service)

About the position

As a Software Developer in Test, you will design, develop and deliver next generation technologies. You will build, automate, and run performance testing scenarios for our products in virtualized elements. You will participate in design discussions and help make a difference in developing the future direction of our AI/ML software. You will drive the efficiency and reliability of our products by testing them thoroughly to understand potential risks, bugs, or issues, providing an exemplary product experience for our end users. You strive for the best in everything you do—meaning you won’t rest until the products you work on are at the highest quality. You love hunting for problems within code, seeking issues to correct, and enjoy the challenge of a code-based scavenger hunt that includes testing, providing feedback, and identifying alternative suggestions for our product’s environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and execute test automation to test software features on our next-generation security platform as part of our Strata Logging Service.
• Develop and maintain test automation and framework.
• Develop tools and infrastructure that enable engineers to build, test and release features confidently and continuously.
• Understand customer configurations, debug, reproduce, verify fixes and add new test cases for issues uncovered in customer deployments.
• Verify endurance and scale testing to validate robust feature functionality under stress.
• Work closely with the Software Engineering, Product Management teams during product development from design to release.
• File bugs and work with development to fix issues seen.
• Mix in your creative skills with a focused testing approach to produce the best quality products in cybersecurity.
• Be involved in a rigorous approach to testing for specifications, assist the team with testing methods or tools for new testing.
• Work on different public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) to automate cloud orchestration, visualization and alerting mechanisms.
• Configure, build and expand both Functional and System Testbeds.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Debug issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved.

Requirements

• BS or MS in computer science or related technical field.
• 10+ years of related experience as a Systems Test Engineer in networking/cloud technologies.
• 4 years of proven experience in leading test strategy Cloud products such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure.
• Good understanding of networking concepts, L2-L7 protocols.
• Basic understanding of SQL queries.
• Experience with API and UI automation/testing.
• Experience with VMWare vsphere.
• Scripting and/or programming with experience in Infrastructure and Tools development in Python.
• Experience with Unix/Linux OS.
• Comfortable with Agile methodologies and working in small and large teams.
• Testing network security products, preferably with firewalls and intrusion prevention is a plus.
• Experience in testing container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Experience driving performance test efforts for complex, asynchronous microservice-based systems.
• A self-starter who is confident and effective when working across distributed teams.
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills.

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees.
• Mental and financial health resources.
• Personalized learning opportunities.