Senior Software Engineer (Python SDET)

• We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Test Automation Developer to help develop and maintain a scalable, reusable, and extensible test automation framework for our enterprise firewall and network security products.
• This is a core development role focused on building and maintaining the framework infrastructure.This position requires deep experience in automation frameworks, API services and integration tools. Youll work across teams to ensure testing systems are CI-ready, maintainable, and provide visibility through monitoring and reporting tools.
• Our Test Automation Framework (TAF) Team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of our testing infrastructure across the entire product lifecycle.
• The team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust, reusable, and extensible test automation frameworks that empower QA and Development teams to efficiently validate functionality, performance, and security of our products.
• This highly skilled team works at the intersection of Software Development, Quality Engineering, DevOps and Infrastructure teams.

• 6-8 years of experience in test automation framework development (not limited to test scripting).
• Strong expertise in Robot Test Framework, including custom keyword and library development.
• Proficient in Python, with hands-on experience building REST APIs using Flask.
• Proficient with Perl, JavaScript, and Linux shell scripting.
• Solid knowledge of MySQL for backend automation support and reporting.
• Strong command over Git (version control) and Jenkins (CI/CD pipeline management).
• Practical experience with GCOV or similar tools for code coverage analysis.
• Fair understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, VPN, NAT, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and team collaboration skills.

Desirable skills

• Experience with Go (Golang) for tool or microservice development.
• Implement code coverage tracking using GCOV to ensure test completeness and visibility.
• Familiarity with monitoring dashboards using Grafana for automation visibility and metrics.
• Experience with virtualized test environments (Proxmox, VMware, KVM) or containerized labs (Docker, Kubernetes).