Principal Software System QA (Cortex DevOps Platform)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

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!

Job Description

Your Career

We are looking for a motivated QA System Engineer to join the Cortex System QA team in our Tel Aviv R&D center. As a QA System, you will play the role of setting up the Cortex Devops Platform system environment 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 DevOps Platform from a System perspective including all services:

• Participate in setting up and maintaining a System tests lab with all available and required integrations
• Deciding and prioritizing system tests to run in the System lab, manually and/or automated, thus being on top of all new functionalities/integrations which are introduced in each release
• Analyzing, debugging, reporting, and following up on failures in system environments
• 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

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 7+ years of software testing experience, including manual and automation QA
• Experience with at least one public cloud vendor GCP/AWS/Azure
• Hands on experience with Python or other programming language for writing automation tests
• Experience and knowledge  of  DevOps technologies such as Kubernetes
• Experience with both frontend and backend testing of both cloud-based and on-prem services
• Experience in setting and writing testing documents  and plans (STDs/ATPs) and knowledge of various testing methodologies
• Ability and experience in test-planning and testing a system as a whole and not only functionality of different features

Nice to have:

• Experience working with Linux-based environments 
• Experience with CD tools like argocd etc

Additional Information

The Team

We are the global cybersecurity leader, known for always challenging the security status quo.

Our mission is to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. This has given us the privilege of safely enabling tens of thousands of organizations and their customers. Our pioneering Security Operating Platform emboldens their digital transformation with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in security, automation, and analytics. By delivering a true platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of change-makers like us, we provide highly effective and innovative cybersecurity across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.

Our Security Operating Platform is built for automation. It is easy to operate, with capabilities that work together, so customers can prevent successful cyberattacks. They can use analytics to automate routine tasks to focus on what matters. We are known for continuously delivering innovations; and with Application Framework, we extend that to an open ecosystem of developers that benefit from our customers’ existing investment in data, sensors, and enforcement points.

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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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.