Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

Company Description

About CyberArk:
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), is the global leader in Identity Security. Centered on privileged access management, CyberArk provides the most comprehensive security offering for any identity – human or machine – across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads and throughout the DevOps lifecycle. The world’s leading organizations trust CyberArk to help secure their most critical assets. To learn more about CyberArk, visit our CyberArk blogs or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Job Description

Join the team behind cert-manager, an open-source CNCF project widely used to provision X.509 certificates to Kubernetes clusters. Cert-manager has over 11,000 GitHub stars, more than 5 million daily downloads, and recently completed the journey to become a graduated project within the CNCF.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test within the cert-manager team, you will be part of a highly motivated, dedicated, and experienced team that protects many of the largest organizations in the world. To deliver on the responsibility of producing highly secure and robust software that protects machine identities at scale, the team is looking for someone to enhance and expand the testing capabilities of our open-source and enterprise projects.

You’ll lead efforts to refine testing strategies, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and strengthen our integration testing while introducing advanced techniques like fuzz testing. As a part of our team of engineers, you’ll ensure our software is secure, reliable, and meets the highest standards to bring the needed “break-it” mindset to our shift-left development methodology.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for a continuous testing and quality improvement culture and collaborate with the development team to strengthen best practices.
• Identify gaps and lead the improvement of test coverage and quality of the tests.
• Take ownership of complex integration and system-level testing tasks beyond unit tests.
• Coordinate with other test and development teams to ensure thorough validation of how our applications interact within the broader Venafi platform.
• Enable developers by designing, implementing and maintaining automation framework and tools.
• Collaborate with the UA team to manually test documentation for installation and command-line instructions, ensuring accuracy and usability for end users.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate the testing of documentation processes, aiming to enhance efficiency and reduce manual testing efforts.
• Develop and maintain test infrastructure.
• Work with teams and product owners within the Agile process to clarify and tighten acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Co-develop and review test plans with the team during Agile iterations.
• Support developers in designing and building complex end-to-end test scenarios.
• Track quality metrics to measure the adoption of testing strategy and propose process changes to address deficiencies.

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Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• Solid experience with a variety of Test Automation and Management tools.
• Experience building robust and scalable automation frameworks and tests.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab and GitHub preferred).
• Good knowledge of one or more programming languages (Golang preferred).
• The ability to write clean, consistent, and well-documented code following best practices.
• The ability to learn fast with strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• The ability to lead, multi-task, problem-solve, make decisions, and operate in a fast-paced environment.
• The ability to be self-motivated, work independently and be reliable and responsive.

What sets you apart?

• Experience testing security software
• Familiarity with Public Key Infrastructure
• Experience with SaaS products and technologies
• Experience managing Kubernetes / Cloud Native technologies
• Experience with typical IT infrastructure, such as load balancers, web servers, certificate authorities, identity management systems, etc.
• Experience with UI test automation frameworks

Additional Information

We are proud to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, where every individual's unique background, perspective, and contribution is celebrated. We believe that by embracing diversity, we drive innovation and create a stronger, more united team. Inclusion is at the heart of who we are and how we succeed. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete a comprehensive background check as per our internal policy. 

CyberArk is an equal opportunities employer. If you would like any special arrangements made for your interview, please inform the EMEA Talent Acquisition team upon your application so that we may take steps to accommodate your needs.