Software QA Engineer
Come join our passionate team! Barracuda is a leading cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex threats. Our platform protects email, data, applications, and networks with innovative solutions, and a managed XDR service, to strengthen cyber resilience. Hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and managed service providers worldwide trust us to protect and support them with solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use.
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Envision yourself at Barracuda
Join Barracuda's SecureEdge Reporting team as a QA Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of our data pipelines, analytics dashboards, and reporting infrastructure. You'll work with large-scale security telemetry data flowing through our datalake and validate insights delivered to customers worldwide.
What you’ll be working on:
- Design and execute test plans for reporting APIs, dashboards, and data pipelines
- Develop automated test frameworks for backend services (Go) and data workflows
- Validate data integrity across ETL pipelines, datalake, and reporting layers
- Perform SQL-based data validation on ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and data warehouses
- Test RESTful/gRPC APIs for security telemetry and analytics endpoints
- Collaborate with developers to identify edge cases and improve test coverage
- Create and maintain performance/load tests for high-volume data ingestion
- Participate in CI/CD pipeline integration for automated testing
- Document test cases, results, and defect reports
- Drive quality metrics and continuous improvement initiatives
What you bring to the role:
- Testing - Manual & automated testing, test case design
- Automation - Python, Go, or similar for test scripts
- Databases/SQL - Strong SQL skills, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, data validation
- Datalake/ETL - Experience testing data pipelines, Kafka, Spark, or similar
- API
- Testing - Postman, REST/gRPC testing, API automation
- Tools - Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, JIRA, TestRail or similar
- Communication - Clear documentation and cross-team collaboration
Nice to Have
- Experience with network security products (firewalls, SD-WAN, SASE)
- Familiarity with ClickHouse, BigQuery, or columnar databases
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
- Exposure to performance testing tools (k6, Locust, JMeter)
- Understanding of data warehousing concepts and BI tools (Grafana, Looker)
- Experience with observability and monitoring (Prometheus, ELK)
- ISTQB or equivalent certification
- Familiarity with AI-driven testing tools or LLM-based test generation
- Experience with AI/ML-assisted test automation and code analysis
- Understanding of generative AI tools for productivity enhancement
What you’ll get from us
A team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility – there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda. In addition, you will receive equity, in the form of non-qualifying options.