SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
Role Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Test Staff Engineer with deep expertise in Firewall/Security testing and strong hands-on automation. This role requires technical leadership, end-to-end ownership of test strategy for assigned components, and building scalable automation and test tools to ensure high-quality SonicOS releases.
Key Responsibilities
- Own test strategy, planning, execution, and quality sign-off for SonicOS components
- Architect, develop, and maintain automation frameworks, pipelines, and test tools
- Drive an automation-first regression strategy and improve overall test coverage
- Perform complex system, integration, and upgrade/downgrade testing
- Partner with Dev/PM in design reviews, scrums, and defect triage
- Lead root-cause analysis and validation of critical customer issues
- Mentor engineers; review test plans, automation design, and coverage
- Drive release readiness, escape analysis, and quality metrics
Must-Have Skills
- Strong Networking: TCP/IP, Routing, NAT, VLANs, Firewall policies
- Firewall/Security: VPN, DPI/App Control, IPS, Gateway AV, Geo-IP, Botnet
- Automation: Playwright / Selenium / PyTest / Robot Framework
- Programming: Python or JavaScript (framework/tool development)
- Linux/Unix, debugging with logs, core dumps, packet capture (tcpdump/Wireshark)
- CI/CD integration (Jenkins, Git-based pipelines)
- Defect tracking & test management (JIRA or similar)
- Exposure to effective usage of AI tools
Good to Have
- Experience with signature-based services & live update pipelines
- Cloud test environments (AWS/Azure)
- Handling customer escalations/field issue reproduction
Soft Skills
- Technical leadership, strong ownership, and decision-making
- Excellent debugging and communication skills
- Ability to lead quality initiatives across teams
Education
- B.E / B.Tech / M.Tech in CS/IT or related fields
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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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Skills Required
- Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP, Routing, NAT, VLANs, Firewall policies)
- Firewall/Security domain expertise (VPN, DPI/App Control, IPS, Gateway AV, Geo-IP, Botnet)
- Automation experience with Playwright, Selenium, PyTest, Robot Framework
- Programming experience in Python or JavaScript for framework/tool development
- Linux/Unix proficiency and debugging using logs, core dumps, packet capture (tcpdump/Wireshark)
- CI/CD integration experience (Jenkins, Git-based pipelines)
- Defect tracking and test management experience (JIRA or similar)
- Exposure to effective usage of AI tools
- B.E / B.Tech / M.Tech in CS/IT or related fields
- Experience with signature-based services & live update pipelines
- Experience with cloud test environments (AWS/Azure)
- Experience handling customer escalations and field issue reproduction
- Technical leadership, strong ownership, decision-making, excellent debugging and communication skills
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, mental-health support, and wellness programs are part of the package. Feedback suggests coverage breadth is a dependable component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays and sick time, and bereavement leave are described alongside flexible or remote options. Feedback suggests ample time away meaningfully supports balance.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) and core financial protections such as life and disability insurance are included. Feedback suggests these fundamentals meet standard expectations for many.
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What We Do
SonicWall has been fighting the cyber-criminal industry for over 25 years defending small, medium-size businesses and enterprises worldwide. Backed by research from the Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Threat Network, our award-winning real-time breach detection and prevention solutions, coupled with the formidable resources of over 10,000 loyal channel partners around the globe, are the backbone securing more than a million business and mobile networks and their emails, applications and data. This combination of products and partners has enabled a real-time cyber defense solution tuned to the specific needs of the more than 500,000 global businesses in more than 215 countries and territories.
