Principal SDET Engineer

Your Career
At Palo Alto Networks were not just building products were redefining whats possible in cybersecurity. As a Principal SDET Engineer youll play a critical role in our mission to secure the worlds digital transformation. Your work will directly impact the quality and reliability of the solutions that protect global enterprises every day. If youre passionate about driving quality at scale and want to be part of a team thats leading the charge in cloud security innovation we want to hear from you.

• Why Cortex Cloud

  • Market Leader Be part of the fastest-growing cloud security platform trusted by leading organizations around the globe and help ensure its quality scales with its success.

  • Innovative Culture Collaborate with top minds in cybersecurity and automation where your ideas for smarter faster and more secure testing will be valued and implemented.

  • Massive Impact Your work as an SDET will directly contribute to protecting the worlds most critical digital assets by ensuring our solutions are secure stable and production-ready.

  • Rapid Growth Join a high-velocity team where career growth and impact go hand in hand. As we scale youll have opportunities to take ownership lead initiatives and grow your technical expertise.

Your Impact

• You will be leading the test design and strategy for high-priority high-impact product features.

  • Design and develop comprehensive test plans and strategies for complex large-scale features.

  • Tackle the challenges of test strategy for enterprise-grade products and applications.

  • Navigate the complexity of cloud platforms and drive improvements in overall product quality.

  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional roles and peers to achieve shared product quality goals.

• Youll need to design implement and continuously enhance test automation efficiency to boost the QA teams productivity.

  • Establish a standardized methodology for developing and maintaining test automation across the team.

  • Design develop and maintain test automation tools and utilities for both backend and UI components.

  • Define develop and manage complex testbed environments to support varied test scenarios.

  • Enhance test automation frameworks to ensure they are developer-friendly robust highly maintainable support detailed reporting facilitate easy debugging and seamlessly integrate with CI/CD and bug tracking systems for cloud-based applications.

• You will contribute to product decision-making by providing insights into product quality and influencing the development of cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions.

  • Analyze complex issues and defects guiding root cause analysis during and after releases.

  • Take a leadership role in evolving software testing processes and best practices.

  • Drive improvements in functionality usability testability performance and production stability collaborating with architects and engineering teams.

  • Work closely with engineering product management UX documentation DevOps and customer engineering teams throughout the product lifecyclefrom requirements to release.

  • Define and implement processes for building bi-directional feedback loops with customers to improve quality and satisfaction.

• You are expected to set a strong example and lead 

  • Mentor and coach junior QA team members fostering a culture of growth and excellence.

  • Actively participate in the hiring process and technical interviews for new team members.

  • Demonstrate clear and effective verbal communication skills in team and cross-functional interactions.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 9 years of experience in technical QA roles within large-scale enterprises or high-growth startups.

• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with additional languages is a plus.

• Deep understanding of public cloud platforms including AWS GCP and Azure.

• Demonstrated experience in developing complex test frameworks from scratch with a strong focus on scalability and efficiency

• Proven ability to quickly adapt to new technologies tools and automation frameworks (Pytest Selenium etc)

• Extensive experience in leading QA efforts for distributed systems and SaaS-based products.

• Expertise in designing and implementing robust test strategies for complex large-scale systems.

• Hands-on experience with backend and frontend testing frameworks; passionate about driving continuous improvement in test infrastructure and coverage.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and proficiency in building and maintaining test tools and automation pipelines.

• Proven ability to work efficiently with cross-functional teams to identify issues drive resolutions and deliver high-quality outcomes.

• Excellent collaboration skills; a team player with strong ownership and accountability.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or a related field.

• Experience in Cloud security industry or equivalent relevant experience is advantageous

Additional Information :

The Team

Why Cortex Cloud

• Market Leader Be part of the fastest-growing cloud security platform trusted by leading organizations around the globe and help ensure its quality scales with its success.
• Innovative Culture Collaborate with top minds in cybersecurity and automation where your ideas for smarter faster and more secure testing will be valued and implemented.
• Massive Impact Your work as an SDET will directly contribute to protecting the worlds most critical digital assets by ensuring our solutions are secure stable and production-ready.
• Rapid Growth Join a high-velocity team where career growth and impact go hand in hand. As we scale youll have opportunities to take ownership lead initiatives and grow your technical expertise.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $$147000 - $237500YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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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.

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