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 Netskope API Gateway provides our customers with high performance access to Netskope APIs through a single, unified gateway. 

What’s in it for you

As an SDET on the API Gateway team you will collaborate with backend service teams to ensure the overall quality, reliability, scalability and performance of Netskope’s new REST API platform. Your work will span the frontend and the web application backend, and you will work closely with our backend service teams on Machine Learning, Threat, DLP, IaaS, APIs and other cutting edge technologies as we continue to expand the gateway and its capabilities.

What you will be doing

• Developing and executing software test plans in order to identify software problems and their causes.
• Defining what tests should be automated and aid in automating them.
• Developing automation scripts in parallel with feature development to enable CI/CD.
• Designing test plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures, and defining acceptance criteria.
• Continuing to develop and optimize test procedures for improving efficiency on test plan execution.
• Leading efforts to integrate new tools and technologies for existing regression testing to rely completely on automation.
• Working with teams to set up testing processes, patterns and standards, and being the voice of quality.
• Developing and overseeing appropriate processes, toolset, and staging environments to support our testing strategy.
• Helping the development team and product owner in debugging and troubleshooting issues throughout the test cycle.
• Openly collaborating with team members, and informing the development team of progress, roadblocks, and issues.
• Developing effective reporting and analysis of critical product quality metrics.
• Keeping up-to-date on industry UI trends to validate procedures, programming and documentation.

Required skills and experience

• A minimum of 12+ years of hands-on testing and automation experience 
• 3+ years of experience testing Rest APIs
• Strong experience in Web User Interface Testing
• Experience building automation frameworks for API/Web using Java or Python.
• Strong experience with a variety of Test Automation and Management tools (TestNG,
  Selenium WebDriver or Cypress)
• Good knowledge of web applications and http protocols.
• A solid understanding of APIs, web services and microservice architecture.
• A solid understanding of the test process: requirement analysis, test scenario design, test case creation, test scripting and status reporting to stakeholders for testing services.
• Experience working with Jenkins to build CI/CD pipeline (preferred).
• Experience with test delivery in an Agile model with focus on sprint automation.
• Familiarity with web data formats like JSON, MIME,XML, HTML.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bonus points for 
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience working with Log Aggregation Tools like Sumo Logic.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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