Principal Software Developer In Test (Prisma Cloud)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer on our Prisma Cloud Service team, you will design, develop and deliver next-generation technologies. You will build, automate, and run testing scenarios for our products in virtualized environments. We are looking for highly technical individuals driven in their desire to get hands-on experience in complex cloud environments. You'll work closely with our development and product management teams, testing and presenting the results to identify new approaches.

You will participate in design discussions and help make a difference in developing the future direction of our 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 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 products' environment.

Your Impact

• Provide a consistent, standardized, and a standard methodology approach in developing testing automation across our cloud platform
• Design and develop test plans and test strategies for complex new features/application span across multiple scrum teams and define the process for communication and collaboration among them
• Analyze complex defects/issues, provide guidance/work methodically to isolate root cause found during and after software release
• Take a leading role in ongoing process enhancements and software testing practices
• Work closely with the greater engineering group, Product Management teams during product development from requirement to release
• Define, develop and maintain complex testbed environments
• Build test automation frameworks that is easy to develop scripts, robust, supports variety of reporting, easy to troubleshoot failures, integrates with bug tracking systems and works easily with CICD  for cloud-based products
• Drive improvement on functionality, usability, testability, performance and production stability of the applications and systems
• Analyze performance data, production logs, and graphs to find anomalies in production
• Work with APIs from multiple cloud vendors and their associated technologies and tools
• Mentor and coach scrum team members

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS/MS in computer science or a related technical field with 8+ years of relevant industry experience or equivalent military experience required
• Career level years of proven experience in leading test strategy for SAAS products such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure
• Software QA Automation experience with Distributed and Cloud-based systems using Python
• Experience working with Selenium-based UI automation frameworks
• Career-level years of hands-on leadership experience in Agile and Scrum process 
• Expertise in identifying performance bottlenecks and solving performance issues in distributed cloud software
• Experience driving performance test efforts for complex, asynchronous microservice-based systems
• Experience with Rest API testing at