Principal System QA Engineer

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Your Career

We are looking for a motivated Principal System QA Engineer, to join the Cortex System QA group, infrastructure team, in our Tel Aviv R&D center. As a Principal System QA Engineer, you will play the role of setting up the Platform, XDR & XSIAM, system environment, infra-related and System E2E user flows, enhancing them with every release, and executing and analyzing them for different releases. In this role, you will work closely with the developers, product managers, and other QA engineers, and also be in charge of maintaining appropriate test labs for smooth test execution.

You need to have a passion for improving the overall quality of the product you test. All this in a fast-paced process of development, testing, and release. Cortex XSIAM is one of the fastest-growing products in the history of cybersecurity. Being a part of XSIAM's product team gives you an unrivaled chance to work with an amazing core team, on a new product, right from its inception, and do that with the resources of the world's cybersecurity leader. At XSIAM we challenge the status quo and create the platform and practices that redefine the cybersecurity industry as we know it. We are currently on a mission to transform security operations. By breaking the silos between endpoint, network, and cloud, leveraging AI and combining endpoint prevention with cross-data detection, investigation and response - our platform provides the modern SOC with the most complete protection against any threat, at scale. If you are highly motivated, and competitive, and do not shy away from tough challenges, come join our mission and become part of some of the best minds in the world to shape the future of security operations.

More information about XSIAM can be found here.

Your Impact

• Test our Cortex Platform from System perspective including all services:
• Developing, executing and analyzing infrastructure-related (DevOps and IT deliveries, License management, etc.) System E2E user flows.
• Deciding and prioritizing tests to run in System environment, manually and/or automated, thus being on top of all new functionalities/integrations that are introduced in each release.
• Analyzing, debugging, reporting and following up on failures and discovered issues
• Working closely with automation teams, managing the defined tasks - from requirements to implementation and execution.
• Working closely with QA, development and product management stakeholders.
• Collaborating with functional QA engineers to enhance regression test suites, prioritize and decide on automation coverage.
• Learning about security solutions and technologies
• Integration with GCP Cloud Computing
• Integration with other Palo Alto Networks cloud services

Your Experience

• 7+ years of software testing experience
• Experience writing testing documents (STDs/ATPs) and knowledge of various testing methodologies
• Experience with Cloud vendors such as GCP, AWS, Azure
• Experience with both frontend and backend testing of cloud-based
• Ability and experience in test-planning and testing a system as a whole and not only functionality of different features.
• Self-learner and ability to learn new technologies and methodologies in a relatively short time
• Knowledge of a scripting or a programming language
• Security background in general and security program knowledge in particular - a big advantage
• Academic degree(s) in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience- an advantage
• Experience working with Linux-based environments - an advantage
• Experience in test automation - an advantage
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in both Hebrew and English
• The candidate should also possess the ability to work under pressure with extreme deadlines, prioritize projects, and maintain focus and a sense of humor

The Team

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Our Commitment

We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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