Senior QA Engineer -Detection Team (Cortex)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Your Career

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contribute to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us every day - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution.As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you a choice in how you are supported

Your Impact

As a Senior SQA Engineer in our analytics group, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our products. You will be responsible for designing focused, coherent test plans and helping to establish and evolve our test platform, leveraging microservices architectures, cloud-native technologies, and innovative testing solutions.
In this role, you will be part of a leading engineering organization developing advanced, large-scale cybersecurity cloud technologies.
You will work across multiple cloud providers—GCP, Azure, and AWS—and their associated infrastructures, with a strong focus on end-to-end (E2E) testing of core platform capabilities, particularly Threat Detection.

Your Experience 

•  5+ years of experience in complex E2E flows as well as with component deep testing
•  Deep knowledge of testing concepts and methodologies.
• Experience in automation infrastructure development and best practices in automation - Must
• Ability to produce an effective and coherent test plans.
•  Skilled in diagnosing and solving complex problems while providing detailed technical analysis.
•  Familiarity with cloud environments (GCP - advantage) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
•  Experience in defining test specifications, both per component and E2E.
•  Strong SQL skills.
•  Knowledge of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Familiar with JIRA (Or another ticket/project management tools).
•  Self-motivated learner with deep attention to details.
•  Security background - an advantage

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.