Software Development Engineer in Test - API & Integrations

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Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

12 days ago

Software Development Engineer in Test - API and IntegrationsThe engines behind our threat-blocking tech.Want to work on technical challenges that span complex micro-service architectures, millions of users and tens of thousands of servers? Then come join our dynamic Engineering Team and deliver products to millions of users!As an engineer in our API and Integrations teams, you will help build and maintain our growing API platform and build integrations with leading security ecosystem providers. You will have the opportunity to work with various open source systems, work in our private cloud as well as have exposure to public clouds such as AWS and GCP. You will help ensure our backend services, web application UI, and frameworks provided by the platform meet the high standards demanded by our customers.What You’ll Do:

Contributing to the planning, estimation, and refinement of stories, epics, and design changes as part of an Agile Scrum team
Building out test plans to cover new areas of functionality, ensuring all necessary testing is performed
Refining acceptance criteria into testable units and converting those into automated tests that execute efficiently and reliably
Integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and ensuring successful automation as part of our standard build process
Occasional manual testing when automation is not an option
Reporting, reproducing, and helping development resolve defects – emphasis on troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and prevention of similar issues in the future
Monitoring our results and driving continuous improvement through process changes
Mentoring and coaching junior engineers
Contributing to design/code reviews for product and test code
Advocating test automation and coaching the team on best practices

What You’ll Bring:

Engineering / Computer science degree or equivalent experience
Extensive experience test planning and breaking down stories/requirements into testable units
2+ years of significant test automation work, validating both back-end and front-end interfaces in at least one high-level object-oriented language, including:

Experience with public-facing and internal APIs using REST and software developed within a Micro-Service architecture
Extensive experience automating business logic in the services layer (RESTful API, SDK, or CLI, as appropriate)
Proficiency in validating contract, functionality, correctness, and performance of REST API endpoints
Experience with multithreading, concurrency, SaaS, and multi-tenant architectures
Proven ability to integrate with and automate using third party APIs (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc)
Familiarity with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jasmine, or equivalent
Clear understanding of how to manage risk through negative testing, boundary/limits testing, load/soak testing, and other test aspects as appropriate, including system integration, performance/scale, security, and L10N/I18N
Solid programming skills and experience automating in Java or similar

Familiarity in validation of UI-functionality and rendering, End-to-End testing, and UAT scenarios

Experience with Cypress or knowledge of Protractor/Selenium
Knowledge of Web Browsers, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, JSON, XML, integration with APIs, web servers
Great knowledge of testing design patterns - for example, the Page Object Model

Experience delivering testing in Agile projects with continuous testing model
Database familiarity (types, schemas, SQL queries, basic operations) and ability to incorporate database-side validation into automated tests
Some working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Office365, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Server

Additional Desired Experience:

Working knowledge of public cloud, especially AWS
Experience with CI/CD pipeline, working knowledge of Jenkins and pipelines
Experience testing fault resilient services
Experience in working with highly scalable and distributed systems
Experience with Agile Scrum
Basic understanding of authorization protocols such as OAuth
Experience in deep diving into logs, code and other elements to understand and solve problems

DEI StatementCybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.

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