Principal QA Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

We are seeking a talented Principal QA Engineer to deliver roadmap features of Enterprise TruRisk Platform which would help customers to Measure, Communicate and Eliminate Cyber Risks.  

Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for creating an automation regression test bed & prototyping, designing, developing, and supporting a highly scalable QA framework to test all the products and features of Qualys Platform. Along with existing Integrations and connector certifications.

We invite you to be part of the motivated and Qualys engineering team responsible for developing high-end Cloud-based Security Solutions. This opening is your chance to work in the rapidly expanding field of computer security, in a company with excellent customer ratings and outstanding growth rates. In this position, you will be the testing product for quality and performance, building utilities for automated functionality testing, and utilizing advanced testing methodologies to deliver cutting-edge products. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to be an integral part of a team building Qualys next generation platform using Big Data & Micro-Services based technology to process over billions of transactions data per day, leverage open-source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting initiatives.

This position is for our fastest-growing R&D center in Pune, India, which is part of the multi-continent engineering team. 

Responsibilities: 

• Work as IC for Automation & Manual QA Effort on API Integration and Third-Party Connectors for the Qualys products. 
• Big data automation experience - Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Elastic Search
• Design and develop automation framework using Java, Python, Cucumber, Jmeter. 
• Build and develop automated performance benchmarks on all releases across all the products for integrations and connectors.
• Ability to work independently on own tasks and collaboratively with the rest of the team to achieve common goals.
• Work on automating existing test suites and plan automation for new development/enhancement.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers locally and globally to understand the testing requirements.
• Understand end-to-end testing requirements and maintain test plans for functionality and system testing.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent written and oral communication, self-starter, and highly motivated.
• Communicate test results to identify risks, and dependencies and escalate the same in a timely manner.
• Ready to pick customer escalations to participate and work closely with engineering

Qualifications: 

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent 
• 10+ years of work experience in the field of software testing and test automation of multi-tier Enterprise and/or Cloud, SaaS applications.
• Demonstrable 4+ years of experience with RESTful API, API Integration Testing automation, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in Performance testing is must.
• Strong knowledge of UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Good understanding of APIs and related Integrations
• Must have built automation framework from the ground up using any one of the Java, Python, Selenium automation framework 

Nice to Have: 

• Has experience of working in a team which has handled large data volumes and understand distributed systems 
• Has worked in a containerized deployment model 
• Has built CI environment using one or more popular tools like Jenkins Pipeline, GoCD, Travis CI etc.