Senior QA Engineer
Description
We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our Engineering team located in Burnaby, BC, reporting to the senior manager of Engineering. In this role, you will help the team deliver leading-edge, market-disrupting cybersecurity solutions in our fast-paced, high-functioning global environment. You will also test systems that distribute and manage large volumes of data used by governments and multinational corporations to defend their networks against cyberattack. At Infoblox, you will be able to thrive in a unique work environment that emphasizes career growth, excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
You are the ideal candidate if you are a great collaborator and strategic thinker. You operate independently and are driven by meeting deadlines and achieving results.
What you’ll do:
- Validate functional system changes before production deployments
- Participate in production deployments and validate functional system changes after rollout
- Develop maintainable test automation frameworks, tools, and automated test suites in response to the growing feature set and customer requirements
- Build monitors, alerts, synthetics tests on grafana for managing, and monitoring SaaS applications running on Kubernetes and AWS
- Participate in requirements, design, test strategies, test plans, and test automation reviews
- Work with the Development team and proactively escalate any critical functionality issues
- Attend regular scrum and prioritize and plan QA testing
- Constantly look out for opportunities to modernize the test automation framework to support effective continuous deployment
What you’ll bring:
- Minimum 8 years of experience with Python and Requests Packages, boto3, Pytest, SSH protocol packages, and/or Kubernetes API
- Experience in Agile/Scrum or full software development life cycle, including requirement analysis, design, development, testing, and defect fixing
- Experience with testing micro-services in AWS and Kubernetes and manual testing experience with curl and Postman
- Knowledge of Linux environments and general networking concepts
- Work experience with Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, and Spinnaker
- Ability to troubleshoot data pipeline, services deployed in Kubernetes
- Exposure to kafka, relational databases, and other big data technologies
- Practical experience in the development of automation and harness design, such as UI, System, and API
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an excellent team-player
- Minimum of 8 years experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or 6 years with a Masters Degree, Other Preferred Degrees in Computer Engineering, or Electric Engineering is required
What success looks like:
After six months, you will…
- Understand our products
- Be comfortable with the technologies we use, including Git, AWS, Kubernetes, kafka, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Grafanaas required for our products
- Set up for product testing
- Be involved in feature automation
After about a year, you will…
- Be a domain expert
- Guide and mentor junior members of the QA team
- Collaborate with peers and teams across the organization in various integration activities to achieve a tangible outcome
We’ve got you covered:
- Boutique office space with state-of-the-art amenities, located in the heart of Metro Vancouver area; bike-friendly and steps from SkyTrain and Metrotown Mall
- Onsite parking paid for by the company
- Generous company contribution towards RRSP (independent of employee contribution!)
- Onsite massages, ping-pong table, dartboard, and a nap room/wellness room for moms
- Stay fueled with healthy snacks, free bean-to-cup gourmet coffee options and selections of exotic teas, juices and refreshing beverages, and biweekly Thirsty Thursday local craft beers, BC wines, and BC ciders
- Enjoy our generous PTO policy and flexible work environment because we know the importance of having a great work-life balance— sometimes your best work is done in slippers
- We are passionate about lifelong learning and growth, and offer opportunities through a world-class learning platform (Litmos), training, workshops, mentorship, and an annual up to $5,000 Career Development reimbursement benefit
- Our teams spend time together outside of work, too — we have several annual team outings, have gone on hikes and Grouse Grind, hosted family BBQs, go-karting, boat cruises, etc.
- Be confident bringing your whole self to work — we’re proud to be an inclusive company with diverse teams and our values grounded in ethics and equality
Why Infoblox?
We’ve created a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion and rewards innovation, curiosity, and creativity. We achieve remarkable results by working together in a supportive environment that focuses on continuous learning and embraces change. So, whether you’re a software engineer, marketing manager, customer care pro, or product specialist, you belong here, where you will have the opportunity to grow and develop your career. Check out what it’s like to be a Bloxer. We think you’ll be excited to join our team.