Senior SQA Performance Engineer

Palo Alto Networks
Santa Clara, CA, United States
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Testing (Software) Computer Engineering Linux Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC) Python (Programming Language) Network Security Open Source Technology Cloud Services Transport Layer Security Firewalls (Computer Science) Palo Alto Networks

Job description

PALO ALTO NETWORKS is the fastest-growing security company in history and a six-time Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for our innovation and ability to execute. Named best place to work by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, we offer the chance to be part of an important mission: ending breaches and protecting our way of digital life. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual, then this job may be for you! Description ROLE: We are looking for a talented and highly technical individual in QA to build, automate and execute cloud service offerings. RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Work closely with Development and Product Management to author test plans and methodologies for new features, technologies and platforms.
  • Assist team with testing methods or tools for new testing.
  • Execution and automation of test plans.
  • File bugs and work with Development to fix issues seen.
  • Present results of testing

Requirements

  • At least 8+ years of software testing and performance experience.
  • Previous experience testing Firewall or Security appliances.
  • General network security experience is an advantage.
  • In depth understanding of IPSEC/SSL.
  • In depth Python skills for automation of tasks and framework creation.
  • Linux and open source tools experience is a must.
  • Previous technical lead experience
  • BS or advanced degree in computer engineering or related technical field.
  • We are looking for a flexible Engineer who can create tools as needed or modify Open Source tools to do whatever is needed.

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