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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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform

• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

   

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.