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

As a Sr. Software QA Engineer, you will ensure quality assurance processes are followed, and that product meets all requirements. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is innovative and motivated. To be successful in this role, you must possess a deep understanding of software development life cycle, have extensive experience in manual and automated testing and knowledge of agile approaches. You will be a key technical contributor to our QA team, responsible for implementation and execution of automated test suites, testing new features, identifying risks and raising them to stakeholders in a timely manner.

Your day-to-day

• Have a good understanding of the product requirement and design of the solution.

• Work in agile, small team environment with focus on speed and quality under tough timelines

• Own features through inception, design feedback, implementation, and launch

• Develop test strategies, execute tests including manual and automation testing

• Build test-related documentation, including test plans, test cases/scripts, bug reports for new features and improvising on existing test plans for feature updates and customer feedback

• Collaborate cross functionally to reproduce and resolve issues

• Promote QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices

What you bring to the team

• Extensive experience building or improving test automation frameworks

• Experience in building test suites using frameworks such as Perl, Ruby, Selenium for UI, Backend and API testing

• Experience writing integration and end to end tests

• Familiarity with bug reporting systems like JIRA

• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail and passion to be the voice of customer experience

• Self-Starter, Self-Driven, detail oriented and ability to work cross functionally with other teams to coordinate testing efforts.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience

Nice to have

• Experience with Container Orchestration, CI/CD tools

• Experience with KVM/Esxi Virtualization, KVM Server Management

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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