Job Description

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. We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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. Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.


Your Career / Impact As a Sr SDET on our Prisma Cloud Service team, you will design, develop and deliver next-generation technologies. You will build, automate, and run testing scenarios for our products in virtualised environments. We are looking for highly technical individuals driven in their desire to get hands-on experience in complex cloud environments. You'll work closely with our development and product management teams, testing and presenting the results to identify new approaches. You will participate in design discussions and help make a difference in developing the future direction of our software. You will drive the efficiency and reliability of our products by testing them thoroughly to understand potential risks, bugs, or issues, providing an exemplary product experience for our end users. You strive for the best in everything you do meaning you won’t rest until the products you work on at the highest quality. You love hunting for problems within code, seeking issues to correct, and enjoy the challenge of a code-based scavenger hunt that includes testing, providing feedback, and identifying alternative suggestions for our products environment. Your Impact

• Provide a consistent, standardized, and a standard methodology approach in developing testing automation across our cloud platform
• Design and develop test plans and test strategies for complex new features/application span across multiple scrum teams and define the process for communication and collaboration among them
• Analyze complex defects/issues, provide guidance/work methodically to isolate root cause found during and after software release
• You will be working to design and develop test automation solutions involving BE & UI
• You will own the effort to build new test frameworks and or extend existing frameworks
• Design and develop a reusable architecture for the test automation
• Able to take on leadership responsibilities and influence the direction of the automation effort, and its schedule and prioritization
• Take a leading role in ongoing process enhancements and software testing practices
• Work closely with the greater engineering group, Product Management teams during product development from requirement to release
• Define, develop and maintain complex testbed environments
• Build test automation frameworks that is easy to develop scripts, robust, supports variety of reporting, easy to troubleshoot failures, integrates with bug tracking systems and works easily with CI/CD for cloud-based products
• Drive improvement on functionality, usability, testability, performance and production stability of the applications and systems
• Analyze performance data, production logs, and graphs to find anomalies in production
• Work with APIs from multiple cloud vendors and their associated technologies and tools
• Mentor and coach scrum team members

Qualifications
Your Experience

• Experience in Python , Dockers , K8s and linux
• Experience in hands on experience with Linux OS , Files system, Commands etc
• BS/MS in computer science or a related technical field with 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Career level years of proven experience in leading test strategy for SAAS products such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure
• Software QA Automation experience with Distributed and Cloud-based systems using Python
• Proven experience in defining and implementing several test automation solutions leveraging Selenium-based UI automation frameworks or any other equivalent
• Advanced experience reading/writing one or more languages: Groovy, Python or Java
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and Test automation tools in Cloud platform is helpful
• Understanding of primary models of test automation frameworks, (i.e. data driven, keyword driven, hybrid, and behavior driven)
• Career-level years of hands-on leadership experience in Agile and Scrum process
• Expertise in identifying performance bottlenecks and solving performance issues in distributed cloud software
• Experience driving performance test efforts for complex, asynchronous microservice-based systems
• Experience with Rest API testing at scale
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and automated build management tools would be a plus
• A self-starter who is confident and effective when working across distributed teams and ability to work as an individual contributor

Additional Information
The Team Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment. Our Commitment We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us ataccommodations@paloaltonetworks.com. Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
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