Today, there's more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes, so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud, Network and Data Security.
Since 2012, we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees spread across offices in Santa Clara, St. Louis, Bangalore, London, Melbourne, Taipei, and Tokyo. Our core values are openness, honesty, and transparency, and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships, collaboration, and teamwork. From catered lunches and office celebrations to employee recognition events (pre and hopefully post-Covid) and social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON), we strive to keep work fun, supportive and interactive. Visit us at Netskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@Netskope.
About the role
Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.
The QA Architect is the mastermind behind our test automation strategy, setting the technical direction and leading the test automation team with expertise and vision. This role is pivotal in ensuring our software meets the highest quality standards. The QA Architect collaborates closely with development and test teams to align on quality objectives and achieve seamless integration across all phases of the software development lifecycle. By driving innovation in automation frameworks and tools, the QA Architect ensures robust, scalable, and maintainable testing solutions. This role also involves mentoring team members, promoting best practices, and continuously refining QA processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. The QA Architect serves as a bridge between technical and business stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and a shared commitment to delivering superior products. Your leadership will be instrumental in creating a culture of quality and excellence, making a tangible impact on our client organization's success.
What’s in it for you
Our SDETs have built Python script automation tools to do functional, regression, security, performance, and load/scale testing of our services and clients. If you love to write code to test, have an aptitude for finding ways to break things, understand how cloud services should work, and can build automation for day-to-day tasks that machines can run, we would love to speak with you about a role on our team.
What you will be doing
- Design Principles: Establish design principles for QA automation and performance testing. Present options and recommendations as needed.
- Customer Focus: By examining customer defects and collaborating with the team to replicate customer environments, you’ll help identify gaps, work on plugging them, and ensure our tests are as realistic as possible. Your insights will directly contribute to a better user experience.
- Test Automation and Modular Solutions: Design and maintain the test automation frameworks, architect modular and reusable automated testing solutions that satisfy client requirements, and work closely with the test team to identify new automation opportunities.
- Solution Testing: Develop and implement comprehensive solution testing strategies for our products to ensure they meet customer requirements and expectations.
- Quality Improvement: You’ll play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of our products. Your keen eye for detail and problem-solving skills will help us elevate our standards.
- Process Enhancement: We're all about continuous improvement. You'll have the opportunity to refine and optimize our testing processes, making them more efficient and effective.
- Innovative Solutions: You'll be instrumental in coming up with innovative testing solutions for our products, ensuring they are robust and reliable.
- Risk Communication: Identify and communicate risks about our releases to ensure we address any potential issues proactively.
- Holistic Approach: Look beyond your specific area of responsibility to ensure our solutions deliver value to our customers.
- Communication: Regularly communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to stakeholders.
- Quality Ownership: Take ownership of quality decisions for the solution, ensuring it meets our high standards.
Required skills and experience
- Over 14 years of hands-on experience in developing tests and automation in the area of Inline Network Security, with expertise in deep packet inspection (DPI) technologies such as Firewall/NGFW, IPS/IDS, web gateways, and more.
- In depth understanding of HTTP/HTTPs protocol & web content is a must.
- Good understanding of networking and application protocols such as TCP/IP, SSL/TLS.
- Strong expertise in programming languages like Python, Pytest or Java (Python preferred).
- Good working experience in CI/CD.
- Experience in designing and maintaining automation frameworks
- Experience in designing test strategy for complex software
- Strong Experience in Functional, Regression, End to End testing, manual and automated.
- Experience in unit, integration, component, Load, Performance, Security and accessibility testing
- Testing multi-layer Web applications and database
- Technical know-how of build and repo management tools with overall testing cycle.
- A track record of success and consistent growth showing that you are highly motivated and capable of coming up with creative, innovative and working solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Familiarity with web data formats like JSON, XML, MIME, etc.
- Working in any of Cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP is preferred.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Opensource technologies is a plus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate in an open, transparent and consistent manner with team and co-workers.
Education
- BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred
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What We Do
Netskope, the SASE leader, safely and quickly connects users directly to the internet, any application, and their infrastructure from any device, on or off the network. With CASB, SWG, and ZTNA built natively in a single platform, the Netskope Security Cloud provides the most granular context, via patented technology, to enable conditional access and user awareness while enforcing zero trust principles across data protection and threat prevention everywhere. Unlike others who force tradeoffs between security and networking, Netskope’s global security private cloud provides full compute capabilities at the edge.
Netskope is fast everywhere, data-centric, and cloud-smart, all while enabling good digital citizenship and providing a lower total-cost-of-ownership.
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