About the Role:
CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced SDET for our IT Management Product Group as a test automation engineer. As an Engineer III SDET, you are expected to bring in experience working with large-scale products. You will leverage that experience to take part in designing and implementing comprehensive test automation tools and infrastructure to ensure the quality, reliability, and accuracy of our cloud-based cybersecurity and IT management systems.
The ideal candidate has a passion for ensuring software quality, developing robust test automation solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment. If you are a passionate and hands-on quality software engineer who wants to operate at scale, take part in complex testing initiatives and make a significant impact in the cybersecurity space, we encourage you to apply.
About the Product:
Falcon For IT is our newest product release. It helps IT & Security teams answer the most difficult questions about their infrastructure, apps and endpoints. It can be combined with our Charlotte AI to ease usability and speed up identification and remediation of issues. The product is a cloud based solution allowing customers to query their entire endpoints fleet to address IT challenges. It works in synergy with our Sensor - a driver installed on client machines that observes system activity and apps, recognizes malicious behavior, then provides on-box prevention capability and remote telemetry to the cloud.
Success in this Role Means:
Automating test processes for speed, reproducibility, and scalability. You will build system tests, performance tests, integration tests, unit tests and more
Reviewing feature code and discerning the quality regarding functional and non-functional requirements
Breaking software systems in creative and useful ways
Collaborating both within and across teams to deliver quality software
Thriving with responsibility, challenges, and aggressive goals
Building elegant, robust, and reliable solutions for complex technical problems
Provide visibility into the overall quality of the product through metrics, dashboards, and reports
What You'll Do:
Take part in the design and development of scalable and efficient automated testing architecture and automation
Understand end-to-end testing requirements, develop and maintain test plans for functional and system testing.
Collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and various stakeholders to understand requirements and define effective testing strategies
Provide your opinion, knowledge and suggestions to improve quality assurance practices
Thrive in hands-on coding environment, leading by example in crafting solutions with the big picture in mind
Pivot the testing focus based on business priorities to align with objectives and manage expectations.
Navigate and manage ambiguity while delivering innovative solutions
What You’ll Need:
5+ years of experience in software testing and quality assurance with a strong focus on test automation
A computer science background or equivalent experience (e.g. programming styles, data structures, algorithms, concurrency, etc.)
Proven track record of designing and implementing test automation for large-scale systems and experienced in developing and enhancing test automation frameworks
Expert level proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Golang (preferred), Python and/or Java
Must have experience of testing distributed systems, web application testing and API testing
Experience with testing tools, and best practices (e.g. Playwright, Robot, Selenium, Cucumber, Cypress, TestNG)
Experience with containerization, CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Argo, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
In-depth knowledge of various testing methodologies: behavior, functional, performance, unit, security, contract, etc.
Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
Experience in working with Windows, Linux (various distros) and Mac platforms
Excellent problem-solving skills and analytical skills along with attention to details
Effective written and oral communication, be a self-starter and highly motivated
Bonus Points:
Experience working in the IT Automation or Cybersecurity sectors
Experienced Gopher
Experience withTerraform, Ansible, Vagrant, Cloud certifications on AWS/GCP
Contributions to the Open Source community
