Sr. QA Automation 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.
Protection Starts with People.  Proofpoint.


The Role

We are looking for an exceptional Sr. QA Engineer to join our growing engineering organization. This is part of the core team that develops cloud software to discover, organize, analyze and secure various cloud datastores. There is a great opportunity to deliver, learn, and grow as this team is rapidly growing and delivering many impactful features.
 

The role is a combination of quality assurance, software development and automation with a primary focus on developing automations for large scale infrastructures. You’ll design and develop test automations that run in regular cadence, and establish coverage across all of the features from the control plane. You’ll continue to expand the scope to a variety of cloud infrastructures (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), and larger scale.

What you bring to the team

• 5+ years of automated testing

• Expertise in public cloud compute and networking, with hands-on experience in at least one of the following: AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Good fundamentals in software design, development and complexity analysis

• Proven experience with REST API-driven automation using Python or JavaScript.

• Ability to design and build emulation tools for testing public cloud resources.

• Experience with at least one of the following automation frameworks is preferred: MochaJS or Pytest.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

• Adaptability and a keen interest in staying current with new technologies and evolving industry trends.

• Understanding of GitHub and experience with CI/CD pipelines, including the setup and management of automated build, test, and deployment workflows

• Prior experience in testing SaaS security products is a plus

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 driven-to-win organisation 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

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