Sr.Staff Software Development Engineer in Test, IPSec / GRE

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.

IPSec-GRE is one of the primary steering methods using which customers route their traffic to Netskope cloud. Once customer traffic reaches Netskope cloud they leverage different SASE services. With this model, organizations improve their security posture, while reducing operational costs compared to traditional hardware appliances.

Whats in it for you

You will be a member of the Quality engineering team using state of the art tools and technologies to test, qualify and benchmark a performant and scalable system that processes customer traffic at cloud-scale. As a QE engineer you should understand the technology, customer usecases, and come up with a robust test plan which covers functionality, E2E and solution test scenarios. You will also automate all variations of testsl. You will participate in design discussions, understand usecases, provide feedback at solution level, challenge the design to think about corner cases etc.

What you will be doing

• Involve in requirements/design discussions with Product managers & development team.


• Design test plans & test strategy documents for the Netskope solutions/features and closely work with the development team to cover all aspects of the features being developed.


• Execution of tests and reporting.


• Development of automation scripts in parallel to feature development to enable CI/CD. (i.e Day0 Automation)


• Identify, evaluate and propose new test tools for improving product testing.


• Work closely with the technical support team to handle customer escalations by reproducing the issues internally. Analyze the test gaps that resulted in customer issues and improve test plan/strategy.


• E2E ownership from feature testing to production deployment to monitoring & alerting.


• Identify gaps in the regression test automation and improve automation coverage.

Required skills and experience

• 12+ years of work experience in the areas of network or cloud security solutions


• Solid understanding of Networking protocols at layers like L2, L3 and TCP/IP is a must..


• Understanding of IPSec/GRE will be a bonus. .


• Strong expertise in Python automation & building test frameworks.


• Cloud Technology (Docker, Kubernetes, Opensource technologies).


• Strong expertise in RESTful Web Service automation


• Good working experience in CI/CD.


• System/server side experience for troubleshooting.


• Technical know-how of build and repo management tools with overall testing cycle.


• Self-starter with desire to work in a fast paced environment with cross-timezone teams.


• Candidate should have an attitude of go and get it done and should exhibit it in day-2-day work


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Bonus points for experience with Ansible, Kubernetes, SQL and NoSQL datastores, CI/CD, Jenkins

Education

• BE in CS or equivalent required, ME/M Tech/MS in CS or equivalent strongly preferred

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