Technical lead - Staff Software Quality Engineer

About This Role

• About Us Broadcom is a leading global company in infrastructure technology, data center networking, and security, with over years of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• The company's origins can be traced back to the technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent, and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent.
• Broadcom focuses on developing technologies that connect our world.
• With its extensive size, scope, and engineering talent, the company is well-positioned to lead the industry into the future.
• This is achieved through the combined capabilities of industry leaders such as Broadcom, LSI, Brocade, CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise security business, and VMware.
• ANSBU is a leader in distributed and gateway security. vDefend Distributed Firewall and ATP stops lateral movement with customizable network segmentation policies.
• Diagnose threats early with vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention and gain complete visibility into all traffic.
• VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention protects private cloud workloads from advanced attacks and ransomware with a high-fidelity multi-layer defense.
• Join our close-knit, fast-paced team that operates in an agile environment to solve critical challenges for our internal and external customers.
• We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical lead - Staff Software Quality Engineer.
• We are working from office culture.
• The position is located in Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• Job Description The team is responsible for delivering the highest-quality Security products.
• We seek a technology lead Software Quality Engineer to develop a test strategy and a test plan to automate the tests and release the product to the customer.
• Join our close-knit, fast-paced team that operates in an agile environment to solve critical challenges for our internal and external customers.
• This involves anticipating and addressing customer problems before they occur by creating thorough end-to-end test cases.
• We use advanced automation to set up test environments and run test cases.
• Our expertise covers testing various advanced security solutions for functionality, system, scale, and performance.
• In this role, the candidate will develop Python code into a sophisticated framework and develop tests, utilities, and tools.
• You’ll oversee the end-to-end portfolio of features for vDefend Distributed Firewall and ATP on an aggressive timeline. ​​ Job Responsibilities Using an advanced testing strategy, create a comprehensive test plan addressing various aspects, including functional, system, scalability, performance, longevity, and churn.
• Formulate intricate test cases based on a distributed scale topology.
• Initiate the QE lifecycle by crafting a test plan, conducting tests, automating them, maintaining integration in CI/CD, identifying defects, reporting issues, and launching the feature within tight deadlines.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust tests using Python in the Pytest.
• Develop high-quality complex Python tests on a distributed system on a scale and in a private cloud.
• Be a strong advocate of Software Quality & regular follow-up with Developers to get defects in a resolved fix state.
• Coordinate with the test team and across the development, product management, SRE, and systems engineers to ensure a feature is tested from the functional, scale, system, and performance perspectives.
• Design complex distributed architectures, influence a peer group to adopt them, and then work with management to implement them. ​Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices in software testing, coding, defects, code review, and automation.
• Document architectures, procedures, and processes and contribute to improving the process.
• Required skillsets Minimum 6 years of strong background in networking or security or cloud-based technologies.
• Minimum 6 years of strong programming skills in Python, YAML, Bash, and object-oriented programming.
• Minimum 4 Years of Virtualization experience in Installation, Configuration & Administration is required.
• Good understanding of IO subsystems and virtualization. (vSphere) Extensive knowledge and practical experience in firewall and security services, as well as in the networking TCP/IP stack, L2/L3, and WAN.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to debug complex systems, and networking troubleshooting and debugging expertise.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs.
• Familiarity with Traffic simulator tools like Ixia Cyperf, TRex, and Iperf is preferred.
• Networking troubleshooting and debugging using tcpdump, Wireshark, traceroute, and route netstat.
• It's a bonus if you are familiar with virtualization, containerization, or cloud platforms like VMware, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Education/Experience Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of related experience or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 6+ years of related experience.
• Why Join Us? Work on cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic and innovative environment.
• Collaborate with a talented and passionate team.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required Additional Job Description: Compensation and Benefits The annual base salary range for this position is $120,000 - $192,000 This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.
• Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time.
• The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.
• We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
• If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.