Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

Job Title:
Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

About
Trellix:
Trellix, the trusted CISO ally, is redefining the future of cybersecurity and soulful work.
Our comprehensive, GenAI-powered platform helps organizations confronted by today's most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Along with an extensive partner ecosystem, we accelerate technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 53,000 customers with responsibly architected security solutions.

We also recognize the importance of closing the 4-million-person cybersecurity talent gap. We aim to create a home for anyone seeking a meaningful future in cybersecurity and look for candidates across industries to join us in soulful work. More at

Role Overview:
Trellix is looking for quality engineers who are self-driven and passionate to work on on-prem/cloud products that cover SIEM, EDR, and XDR technologies. This job involves manual, automated testing (including automation development), non-functional (performance, stress, soak), security testing and much more. Work smartly by using cutting edge technologies and AI driven solutions.

About the role:

• Peruse requirements documents thoroughly and thus design relevant test cases that cover new product functionality and the impacted areas
• Mentors and leads junior engineers and drives the team to meet and beat expected outcomes.
• Continuously looks for optimization in automation cycles, come up with solutions for gap areas
• Works closely with developers/architects and sets the quality bar for the team.
• Identify critical issues and communicate them effectively in a timely manner
• Familiarity with bug tracking platforms such as JIRA, Bugzilla, etc. is must. Filing defects effectively, i.e., noting all the relevant details that reduces the back-and-forth, and aids quick turnaround with bug fixing is an essential trait for this job
• Automate using popular frameworks suitable for backend code, APIs and frontend.
• Hands-on with automation programming languages (Python, go, Java, etc) is a must
• Execute, monitor and debug automation runs
• Willing to explore and increase understanding on Cloud/ On-prem infrastructure

About you:

• 9-15 years of experience in a SDET role with a relevant degree in Computer Science or Information Technology is required
• Show ability to quickly learn a product or concept, viz., its feature set, capabilities, and functionality.
• Solid fundamentals in any programming language (preferably, Python or go).
• Sound knowledge of popular automation frameworks such as selenium, Playwright, Postman, PyTest, etc.
• Hands-on with any of the popular CI/CD tools such as Teamcity, Jenkins or similar is a must
• RESTful API testing using tools such as Postman or similar is a must
• Familiarity and exposure to AWS and its offerings, such as S3, EC2, EBS, EKS, IAM, etc., is an added advantage.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, helm, GitOps is a must.
• strong foundational knowledge in working on Linux based systems.
• Hands-on with non-functional testing, such as, performance and load, is desirable.
• Some proficiency with prometheus, grafana, service metrics and analysis is highly desirable.
• Understanding of cyber security concepts would be helpful.

Company Benefits and Perks:
We believe that the best solutions are developed by teams who embrace each other's unique experiences, skills, and abilities. We work hard to create a dynamic workforce where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Retirement Plans
• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.