Test Staff Engineer – SonicOS (Firewall QA + Automation)

 Posted 3 months ago
  
 India
  
10+ years experience
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AI Summary

The role involves owning the test strategy, planning, execution, and quality sign-off for SonicOS components, while architecting, developing, and maintaining automation frameworks, pipelines, and test tools. Key duties also include driving an automation-first regression strategy, partnering with development teams, and leading root-cause analysis for critical customer issues.

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 TwitterLinkedInFacebook 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.

At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.

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