Senior QA Engineer

The Basics:

Tanium QA Engineers are responsible for testing products built on the Tanium platform. This will involve working with developers and product managers to construct & execute test plans, plan for functional, performance & regression testing, file detailed bugs, and provideding visibility through project updates. 

Strong technical skills are essential. You should be comfortable installing and configuring a variety of operating systems in virtual environments, configuring networks for those systems, and then installing and configuring software on those systems. You should be comfortable reading and understanding product requirements and translating those into test cases and test labs. If these things sound as exciting to you as they do to us, then Tanium could be your new home! 

What you’ll do: 

• Utilize project management and leadership skills to effectively manage multiple concurrent projects throughout the entire software development cycle
• Author and execute test plans and test cases
• Manage resources, project plans, estimates and timelines
• Review test plans, monitor test progress, and distribute test reports
• Understand business requirements and develop test cases against them
• Understand and apply effective product test strategies
• Build and manage product test labs that consist of virtual machines running a variety of operating systems
• Work with source code repositories and CI/CD systems (GitHub preferred)
• Offer input on the role of QA in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Analyze and offer input on product requirements 

We’re looking for someone with: 

Education  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT or other relevant degree or equivalent experience  

Experience  

• 5+ years of Quality Assurance/Testing experience (enterprise level preferred)
• Solid understanding of manual and black box testing experience
• Solid understanding of operating systems (Linux & Windows preferred); how they are installed and configured, and now MacOS
• Strong experience with virtualization - VMware, Hyper-V, UTM, and similar
• Proficient with scripting languages - shell, Python, PowerShell, etc., and familiar with their use for streamlining day to day tasks
• Solid understanding of networking, experience in using packet capture tools is a plus (Wireshark, TCP Dump, etc)
• Must be familiar with terms like authentication, file signature, and certificates
• Experience with testing RESTful APIs
• Project management skills a plus.    

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique p