Senior SDET – Python Automation

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and automate detailed feature test plans for security features across SRX and cloud devices.
• Review and analyze Market Requirements Documents (MRD), Product Description Documents (PDD), and Functional Specifications to ensure proper test coverage.
• Understand customer security scenarios and use cases and incorporate them into test strategies and scenarios.
• Debug, reproduce, and verify customer-reported issues and queries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate testing insights, issues, and improvements effectively.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated UI and API test suites using Playwright with Python, focusing on reliability, speed, and maintainability.
• Validate cloud firewall capabilities such as policy management, rule evaluation behavior, authentication flows, logging/telemetry, control-plane workflows, and upgrade processes.
• Build test coverage for microservices-based systems using layered testing strategies (API-level tests + end-to-end workflows).
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, enabling parallel execution, reporting, and failure diagnostics (logs, traces, screenshots).
• Partner with Software Engineers and Product Owners to review user stories, improve testability, and define quality gates.
• Investigate complex failures using logs, metrics, and traces, perform root cause analysis, and help prevent regressions.
• Use AI-assisted testing tools to accelerate test creation, debugging, and test data generation while ensuring code quality.
• Leverage tools like GitHub Copilot to improve test automation productivity.
• Contribute to test infrastructure improvements, including environments, test data management, and framework utilities.

Experience

• 4–8 years of experience in QA/Test Engineering, SDET, or Software Engineering with strong test automation expertise.
• Strong hands-on Python programming skills for developing automation frameworks and tests.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright for UI automation, including maintainable patterns like page objects and fixtures.
• Solid experience with API testing (REST) and validating