Senior Staff SDET
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own the test architecture and automation strategy for the Identity Governance and Administration platform.
- Design, build, and evolve reusable test frameworks, tools, and scalable test environments across teams and microservices.
- Embed automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, including parallel execution and flaky-test reduction.
- Lead test design for identity lifecycle, provisioning and deprovisioning, access requests and approvals, certification campaigns, and enterprise-system connectors.
- Review designs and code, mentor SDETs and developers, and establish quality standards across the division.
- Improve testability through contract testing, mocking, service virtualization, and test data management.
- Define quality metrics and dashboards covering coverage, flakiness, defect leakage, and pipeline health.
- Evaluate and introduce AI-assisted testing, test impact analysis, and chaos engineering approaches.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in software engineering or test engineering.
- Strong coding skills in one or more of Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or Go, with solid software design principles.
- Deep experience building automation frameworks with tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, Pact, TestNG/JUnit, or pytest.
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of mentoring engineers.
- Experience with IAM or IGA platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, One Identity, or Microsoft Entra.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Palo Alto Networks provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
- The company is an equal opportunity employer committed to diverse and inclusive teams.
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About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.