Principal System QA Engineer (DevOps Platform - Cortex Cloud)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Your Career

We’re looking for a highly motivated Principal System QA Engineer to join our Cortex DevOps Platform team in our Tel Aviv R&D center. Our platform is responsible for the infrastructure provisioning and cloud deployments that power all Cortex products, operating at massive scale and serving thousands of engineers across the company. You will be responsible for setting up testing environments, including infrastructure-related components and end-to-end system user flows, continuously enhancing them with each release, and executing and analyzing them across different versions. In this role, you will work closely with DevOps, developers, product managers, and other QA engineers, and be in charge of maintaining appropriate test labs for smooth test execution.

You need to have a passion for improving the overall quality of the product you test. All this in a fast-paced process of development, testing, and release. Cortex XSIAM is one of the fastest-growing products in the history of cybersecurity. Being a part of XSIAM’s product team gives you an unrivaled chance to work with an amazing core team, on a new product, right from its inception, and do that with the resources of the world's cybersecurity leader. At XSIAM we challenge the status quo and create the platform and practices that redefine the cybersecurity industry as we know it. We are currently on a mission to transform security operations. By breaking the silos between endpoint, network, and cloud, leveraging AI and combining endpoint prevention with cross-data detection, investigation and response - our platform provides the modern SOC with the most complete protection against any threat, at scale. If you are highly motivated, and competitive, and do not shy away from tough challenges, come join our mission and become part of some of the best minds in the world to shape the future of security operations.

More information about XSIAM can be found here.

Your Impact

• Test our Cortex DevOps Platform from system perspective including all services:

• Developing, executing and analyzing infrastructure-related system E2E user flows.

• Deciding and prioritizing tests to run in System environment, manually and/or automated, thus being on top of all new functionalities/integrations that are introduced in each release.

• Analyzing, debugging, reporting and following up on failures and discovered issues

• Working closely with automation teams, managing the defined tasks - from requirements to implementation and execution.

• Working closely with QA,  development and product management stakeholders.

• Collaborating with functional QA engineers to enhance regression test suites, prioritize and decide on automation coverage.

• Learning about security solutions and technologies

• Integration with GCP Cloud Computing

• Integration with other Palo Alto Networks cloud services

Your Experience

• 7+ years of software testing experience

• Experience writing testing documents (STDs/ATPs) and knowledge of various testing methodologies

• Experience with Cloud vendors such as GCP, AWS, Azure

• Experience with both frontend and backend testing of cloud-based

• Ability and experience in test-planning and testing a system as a whole and not only functionality of different features.

• Self-learner and ability to learn new technologies and methodologies in a relatively short time

• Knowledge of a scripting or a programming language

• Security background in general and security program knowledge in particular – a big advantage

• Academic degree(s) in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience– an advantage

• Experience with Kubernetes - an advantage

• Experience working with Linux-based environments - an advantage

• Experience in test automation – an advantage

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in both Hebrew and English

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.