Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

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About Us

Broadcom is a leading global company in infrastructure technology, data center networking, and security, with over years of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence. The company's origins can be traced back to the technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent, and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent. Broadcom focuses on developing technologies that connect our world. With its extensive size, scope, and engineering talent, the company is well-positioned to lead the industry into the future. This is achieved through the combined capabilities of industry leaders such as Broadcom, LSI, Brocade, CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise security business, and VMware.

ANSBU is a leader in distributed and gateway security. vDefend Distributed Firewall and ATP stops lateral movement with customizable network segmentation policies. Diagnose threats early with vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention and gain complete visibility into all traffic. VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention protects private cloud workloads from advanced attacks and ransomware with a high-fidelity multi-layer defense. Join our close-knit, fast-paced team that operates in an agile environment to solve critical challenges for our internal and external customers. We have an exciting opportunity for a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test. We are fostering an in-office work culture. The position is based in Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Job Description

The team is responsible for delivering the highest-quality Security products. We seek a lead software developer to develop and produce Python code for the team’s manual test plans. In this role, the candidate will develop Python code into a sophisticated framework and develop tests, utilities, and tools. You’ll oversee the end-to-end automation for testing vDefend Distributed Firewall and ATP using multi-threading programming on an aggressive timeline.

​​Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust test automation frameworks using Python.

• Develop high-quality complex Python tests on a distributed system on a scale and in a private cloud.

• While developing the code, be a technology expert who provides feedback to manual test engineers.

• Using an advanced testing strategy, create a comprehensive test plan addressing various aspects, including functionality, system, scalability, performance, longevity, and churn. Formulate intricate test cases based on a distributed scale topology.

• ​​Lead the development of test plans, scripts, and scenarios to validate system functionality, performance, and scalability.

• Collaborate with development, Manual test engineer, and product teams to define and implement testing strategies for complex software systems.

• Be a strong advocate of Software Quality & regular follow-up with Developers to get defects in a resolved fix state.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices in software coding, review, and automation.

• Perform manual testing as needed.

• Track test & automation deliverables to product release schedule

Required skillsets

• Minimum 8 years of Python coding work experience.

• Strong programming skills in Python, yaml, bash, and Object-oriented programming.

• Expertise in Python and related testing frameworks (e.g., PyTest, Robot Framework).

• Proven experience in building and optimizing test automation pipelines.

• Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

• Working knowledge of REST APIs.

• A strong background in firewall and security services and practical experience in the TCP/IP networking stack, L2/L3, and WAN is desired.

• Hands-on Experience in System level testing and performance testing networking, security, or cloud-based technologies

• It's a bonus if you are familiar with virtualization, containerization, or cloud platforms like VMware, AWS, Azure, or