Senior QA Test Engineer

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role 

At Proofpoint – Tessian, we’re building intelligent security that works for human beings as they are, not how security policies would like them to be. The Cloud Email Security platform helps enterprises defend against email attacks, protect against data loss, and respond to security incidents more efficiently. Using machine learning technology, the platform automatically predicts and eliminates advanced threats on email caused by human error, such as data exfiltration, accidental data loss, business email compromise, and phishing attacks . We do this with minimal disruption to employees’ workflow. As a result, employees are empowered to do their best work, without security getting in their way.

We are on a mission to improve the quality of our software to improve the overall user experience and satisfaction by providing top notch quality software that ideally never presents significant disrupting BAU bugs.

Therefore, we are seeking a skilled and experienced Quality Assurance Software Engineer to join our growing team. The Quality Assurance Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing software tests to ensure that our products meet customer and business requirements.

Your day-to-day 

• Collaborate with integration development teams to understand projects, consult on testing strategy, implement framework upgrades, and implement automated or whenever not possible, manual tests

• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test data and test scripts.

• Collaborate with Product team to align QA objectives with business objectives on a continual basis

• Perform both manual and automated testing of software applications

• Identify and document defects and work with development teams to resolve them

• Assist in the development of test automation scripts and generic, reusable test frameworks

• Contribute to the improvement of quality and software development processes and methodologies

• Participate in code reviews to identify and mitigate testing-related issues

• Participate in incident management process, helping to identify and mitigate sources of preventable incidents

What you bring to the team 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 3-5 years of experience in software automated testing and quality assurance

• Experience with Agile development methodologies

• Experience with distributed systems

• Strong understanding of software development and testing principles

• Experience with test automation and scripting in Python

• Experience with test management and bug tracking tools (Jira, Shortcut)

• Experience testing mobile, web, and/or desktop applications

• Familiarity with performance and load testing (Jmeter, Loadrunner, Locust)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. 

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!