Test Automation Engineer (Zero Trust Desktop Clients)

About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Location: Remote US What you'll do
The Zero Trust team is looking for an Automation Engineer/SDET with a strong experience automating testing of desktop applications, and potentially mobile.
As an Automation Engineer/SDET, you will create, lead, and maintain our end-to-end (E2E) testing automation frameworks & processes, to enable the teams to write their own E2E tests to guarantee the quality and reliability of their apps. You will work closely with our client teams to define and refine our approach to testing automation, and drive the direction of our testing strategy to ensure the reliable and scalable testing of our software.
We expect you to be a T-shaped engineer, who is just as capable of writing high-quality, low-complexity code for test automation (e.g. E2E testing framework), as you are setting up and managing test infrastructure (e.g. integration with CI/CD platforms or VM orchestration). You will also be expected to use your passion and extensive testing experience to advocate for and instil best testing practice in the team.
Note: this is NOT a QA role. You will not be expected to do any manual testing.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Excellent software development skills, with experience writing & designing high-quality, highly-documented, low-complexity code
• Empathetic, proactive, and constructive communication skills, verbal and written
• Proficiency in one or more common cross-platform scripting language (Python mainly preferred, PowerShell, etc.)
• Solid experience working on E2E automation frameworks, as well as automation frameworks such as Robot Framework, Gauge, or Appium
• Experience with DevOps, specifically integrating test automation within CI/CD infrastructure and the SDLC process
• Experience with automating E2E testing of network-based apps, especially VPNs (e.g. DNS, protocols, throttling, packet loss, etc.)
• Demonstrable experience working on multi-platform client automation
• Strong knowledge and understanding of macOS, Windows, and/or Linux platforms and their testing technologies (e.g. XCTest, XCUITests, NUnit, WinAppDriver, Appium)
• Experience setting up or working with multi-platform VM orchestration
• Experience using one or more Mobile Device Management platforms (MDMs)
• Bonus: Knowledge of Go and/or Rust
• Bonus: Experience with mobile app automation (iOS and Android)

Compensation

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000- $198,000

Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!
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