Software Engineer in Test Applications
Software Engineer in Test Applications
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Job Description
NetBox Labs is seeking a Software Engineer in Test to join our Application Group.
In this role you will be responsible for:
Ensuring highquality reliable releases by identifying documenting and validating defects and regression scenarios.
Taking a pragmatic riskbased approach to testing by prioritizing critical features and potential failure points ensuring efficient use of testing resources while maintaining quality standards
Performing manual testing to validate user interactions edge cases and complex scenarios that automated tests may not cover ensuring comprehensive coverage and identifying usability issues
Designing developing and maintaining robust automated test frameworks and test suites for both open and closed source observability products
Championing quality best practices across engineering teams and supporting a culture of testdriven development.
You will work closely with:
Product management
The Core Applications team NetBox and core plugins
The Onpremise team NetBox Enterprise
The Observability team working with Discovery & Assurance
Community members as users and contributors to our open source projects
Requirements
Proven experience in executing manual testing processes including exploratory testing regression testing and documenting test results
Experience testing distributed systems microservices and eventdriven
Familiarity with manual testing and automation across REST and gRPC APIs
Comfort writing and validating test cases for both backend logic and admin UIs using tools like Pytest Selenium and Playwright.
Handson experience with database testing including validating data integrity performing CRUD operations and writing SQL queries
3 years in a fastpaced SaaS startup environment with an agile mindset
Excellent communication skills especially in documenting test plans test cases and defect reports
Nice to have
Programming experience especially Python & Golang
Understanding of observability concepts and tools (e.g. OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana MQTT)
Experience with network infrastructure testing such as verifying device configurations protocol behaviors or automation pipeline
Experience integrating AIpowered QA tools like Codeium Copilot Claude or Cursor into your workflow
Knowledge of security testing performance testing or load testing frameworks.
Experience contributing to or supporting open source projects as a user tester or contributor
Our culture and values:
We own and solve problems with an innovative mindset and high attention to detail. We are always striving for improvements in our platform and methodologies.
We put our community first and support our colleagues by sharing our knowledge and providing constructive feedback.
We value simplicity and focus and think twice before adding complexity.
Given we are a remotefirst team located all over the world we value strong communication skills and an open transparent culture. We use Google Apps Slack Zoom and Notion to collaborate in real time and work asynchronously. We also get together during the year at company events plus at industry conferences and meetups.
About NetBox Labs:
NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open composable products and supporting the network automation community.
NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox the worlds most popular network source of truth and Orb the nextgeneration open source network observability platform. Our products include NetBox Enterprise a fully supported selfmanaged NetBox with advanced features and NetBox Cloud a secure scalable and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox.
NetBox powers thousands of companies and NetBox Labs is backed by investment from Notable Capital (formerly GGV) Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt Flybridge IBM Salesforce Ventures and Mango Capital.
Employment Type
Full-Time
