Sr. Software QA Automation Engineer (Public Cloud Security)

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
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Testing (Software) Amazon Web Services Automation of Tests Profiling Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP) Python (Programming Language) Performance Tuning Selenium Software Engineering Web Applications Cloud Platform System Performance Testing
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Pytest Information Technology Palo Alto Networks Api Management

Job description

RESPONSIBILITIES: The overall objective of the QA Automation Test Engineer is to provide a consistent, standardized, best practice approach to performance testing across our cloud platform, driving improved performance and production stability of the applications and systems. The day to day responsibilities includes, but not limited to

Requirements

  • Experience in working on / building test automation frameworks for cloud based products
  • Define Automation test strategy, creation and execution of performance test scripts
  • Python expertise
  • Analyzing performance data and creation of QA Automation test results
  • Experience working with Selenium-based automation frameworks
  • Knowledge of pytest is a plus
  • Working with AWS technologies and tools Experience:

  • BS in computer science or related technical field
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in full development life cycle software development
  • 5+ years of hands-on experiences on various performance and load assurance methodology and practices, including performance Testing/Profiling/Tuning Expertise in load generation with HTTP protocols etc.
  • Expertise in identifying performance bottlenecks and troubleshooting performance issues in multi-layers web applications
  • Experience with API testing and automation
  • An absolute self-starter. Confident and effective when working across distributed teams Learn more about Palo Alto Networks here and check out our fast fact

About the company

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! Envision, implement and evolve a comprehensive and leading edge test system for a highly distributed, cloud based security product that is destined to be the de facto standard in industry.

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