Sr Software Development Engineer in Test (Cloud Management Platform)

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

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

The Cloud Management Platform is a public cloud delivered management platform to manage all Palo Alto Networks Next generation network security solutions. It’s an easy-to-use, scalable and secure platform to operationalize complex deployments using the Palo Alto Networks network security portfolio.

You will work in a team of highly motivated engineers building a highly scalable and secure multi-tenant public cloud solution to manage devices in physical, virtual or container form factors. We are looking for passionate engineers that can code and build great products as well as leaders that can own and deliver. Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with others towards achieving a common goal. 

Your Impact

As a SDET, the candidate will be responsible for writing test plans, executing tests, developing automation frameworks and maintaining them, finding software defects, automating tests for features. Detailed responsibilities as below:

• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured software test plans that cover all possible test cases to verify feature functionality for customer use cases
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks
• Develop tools and infrastructure to improve quality and efficiency of testing
• Contribute towards improving existing software test automation frameworks to support missing functionalities needed for new software features
• Design and execute automation scripts for all test cases
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities - Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved - Reproduce and debug issues found during and after software release
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate software testing activities to ensure that feature deliverables meet release deadlines
• Participate in a high paced work environment, with short release cycles
• Take ownership and collaborate with cross-functional product management, development and SDET teams in a fast paced environment

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Experience in writing test plans and test cases, strong knowledge of SDET methodologies, tools and procedures
• Strong programming and/or scripting skills
• Experience in developing test automation is a must - Test Automation of APIs using Python/Pytest is required
• Ability to develop/design tools, libraries, infrastructure, automation framework to improve the quality and efficiency of testing
• Experience testing Cloud Management platforms is highly desirable
• Experience building and maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines a plus
• Experience with Linux and BASH desired
• Experience with TCP/IP Networking and Network Security is highly desirable
• Experience with Public Cloud Environments like AWS or Azure or GCP is a plus
• Experience with Esxi Virtualization and Container technologie like Kubernetes, Docker is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and to work in a fast paced, innovative environments learning new technologies
• UI automation/testing experience using Selenium/Javascript is a plus
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills

Education