Sr Staff Software Automation/Test Engineer

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Description

Your Career
At Palo Alto Networks, we're not just building products — we're redefining what's possible in
cybersecurity. As a Sr Staff SDET Engineer, you'll play a critical role in our mission to secure the
world’s digital transformation. Your work will directly impact the quality and reliability of the solutions
that protect global enterprises every day. If you're passionate about driving quality at scale and want
to be part of a team that's leading the charge in cloud security innovation, we want to hear from you.

● Why Cortex Cloud?

○ Market Leader – Be part of the fastest-growing cloud security platform, trusted by leading organizations around the globe, and help ensure its quality scales with its success.

○ Innovative Culture – Collaborate with top minds in cybersecurity and automation, where your ideas for smarter, faster, and more secure testing will be valued and implemented.

○ Massive Impact – Your work as an SDET will directly contribute to protecting the world’s most critical digital assets by ensuring our solutions are secure, stable, and nproduction-ready.

○ Rapid Growth – Join a high-velocity team where career growth and impact go handnin hand. As we scale, you'll have opportunities to take ownership, lead initiatives, and grow your technical expertise.

Job description
● Own the testing activity of features or areas, encompassing test coverage, efficiency, planning, execution, automation test failure triaging, and continuous improvement such as customer bug RCA.
● Analyze complex defects and issues, guiding the isolation of root causes found during and after software release.
● Collaborate closely with engineering, Product Management, UX, Documentation, DevOps, Customer engineers, and other teams throughout the product development lifecycle from requirements to release.
● Take responsibility for feature quality, becoming the go-to expert for testing-related activities in your area/feature.
● Conduct root cause analysis on production issues and develop improvement plans.
● Drive test design and strategy for high-impact and priority features.
● Design and develop test plans and test strategies for complex new features.
● Manage the complexity of Cloud platforms and test data design.
● Estimate work effort and ensure tasks are on track.
● Address challenges or risks effectively with stakeholders.
● Design, implement, and continuously improve test automation efficiency to boost the testing team’s productivity.
● Apply a consistent test design methodology when developing testing automation.

● Design, develop, and maintain test automation tools and utilities for both Backend and UI.
● Define, develop, and maintain complex testbed environments.
● Build and maintain test automation frameworks, create robust scripts supporting various reporting needs, troubleshoot failures, integrate with bug-tracking systems, and work
seamlessly with CI/CD for cloud-based products.
● Be a self-motivated, independent, and proactive engineer responsible for qualifying Palo
Alto Networks products with public and private cloud solutions.
● Design and develop Backend, UI, and end-to-end automated tests for both regression
and progression features in our products

Qualifications

Your Experience 

● 8+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise-level software testing.
● Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, majoring in Computer Science or Information Technology.
● Proficient in at least one programming language, with a preference for Python.
● Proven experience with automation frameworks like Pytest (preferred) and Selenium.
● Experienced in working with complex automation frameworks and executing detailed test plans.
● Significant domain knowledge of cloud environments such as AWS and Azure; familiarity with GCP is advantageous.
● Capable of analyzing complex issues, identifying root causes, and providing robust automation solut