Sr Software QA Automation Engineer Public Cloud Security - Santa Clara, United States - Palo Alto Networks

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

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.

This is an exciting position for a Software QA engineer to be part of a newly established small SQA team and help build state-of-art-test systems for our high growth SaaS and API-based Security applications


Keys for success:
Software QA Automation experience with Distributed and Cloud-based systems using Python.


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:

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 Networkshereand check out ourfast fact

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