Senior Software QA Engineer

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity. Protection Starts with People. 

As a Senior Software QA Engineer, you will ensure quality assurance processes are followed, and that product meets all requirements. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is innovative and motivated. To be successful in this role, you must possess a deep understanding of software development life cycle, have extensive experience in manual and automated testing and knowledge of agile approaches. You will be a key technical contributor to our QA team, responsible for implementation and execution of automated test suites, testing new features, identifying risks and raising them to stakeholders in a timely manner.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience building or improving test automation frameworks

• Experience in building test suites using frameworks such as Perl, Ruby, Selenium for UI, Backend and API testing to write integration , and end to end tests.

• Familiarity with bug reporting systems like JIRA

• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail and passion to be the voice of customer experience

• Self-Starter, Self-Driven, detail oriented and ability to work cross functionally with other teams to coordinate testing efforts.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities:

• Have a good understanding of the product requirement and design of the solution.

• Ability to work in agile, small team environment with focus on speed and quality under tough timelines

• Own features through inception, design feedback, implementation, and launch

• Develop test strategies, execute tests including manual and automation testing

• Build test-related documentation, including test plans, test cases/scripts, bug reports for new features and improvising on existing test plans for feature updates and customer feedback

• Collaborate cross functionally to reproduce and resolve issues

• Promote QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices

Nice to have:

• Experience with Container Orchestration, CI/CD tools

• Experience with KVM/Esxi Virtualization, KVM Server Management

Why Proofpoint

As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people and developing great teams is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in many countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture!  

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

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