Senior Software Automation/Test Engineer

Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks, we're not just building products — we're redefining what's possible in

cybersecurity. As a Sr Staff SDET Engineer, you'll play a critical role in our mission to secure the

world’s digital transformation. Your work will directly impact the quality and reliability of the solutions

that protect global enterprises every day. If you're passionate about driving quality at scale and want

to be part of a team that's 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 world’s most critical digital assets by ensuring our solutions are secure, stable, and nproduction-ready.○ Rapid Growth – Join a high-velocity team where career growth and impact go handnin hand. As we scale, you'll have opportunities to take ownership, lead initiatives, and grow your technical expertise.

Job description

● Own the testing activity of features or areas, encompassing test coverage, efficiency, planning, execution, automation test failure triaging, and continuous improvement such as customer bug RCA.

● Analyze complex defects and issues, guiding the isolation of root causes found during and after software release.

● Collaborate closely with engineering, Product Management, UX, Documentation, DevOps, Customer engineers, and other teams throughout the product development lifecycle from requirements to release.

● Take responsibility for feature quality, becoming the go-to expert for testing-related activities in your area/feature.

● Conduct root cause analysis on production issues and develop improvement plans.

● Drive test design and strategy for high-impact and priority features.

● Design and develop test plans and test strategies for complex new features.

● Manage the complexity of Cloud platforms and test data design.

● Estimate work effort and ensure tasks are on track.

● Address challenges or risks effectively with stakeholders.

● Design, implement, and continuously improve test automation efficiency to boost the testing team’s productivity.

● Apply a consistent test design methodology when developing testing automation.● Design, develop, and maintain test automation tools and utilities for both Backend and UI.

● Define, develop, and maintain complex testbed environments.

● Build and maintain test automation frameworks, create robust scripts supporting various reporting needs, troubleshoot failures, integrate with bug-tracking systems, and work

seamlessly with CI/CD for cloud-based products.

● Be a self-motivated, independent, and proactive engineer responsible for qualifying Palo

Alto Networks products with public and private cloud solutions.

● Design and develop Backend, UI, and end-to-end automated tests for both regression

and progression features in our products