Sr Software Engineer - QA

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from frauds and malicious bots to enabling companies to focus on innovation. Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better.

You will work with proactive, innovative, and hands-on team members to deliver high impact products critical to primary business functions. We would love for you to come work with us!

What You Will Do:

• Develop and execute automated test scripts for REST API web services, UI, and backend components of security products.
• Perform end-to-end integration testing to validate system interactions.
• Design and implement test automation frameworks for UI (Playwright/Selenium), backend, and APIs using Python (pytest).
• Utilize AWS and GCP to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure, including EC2 and VPC configurations.
• Collaborate with development teams to identify test cases, build test plans, and automate repetitive testing processes.
• Monitor, analyze, and report test results to ensure product quality.
• Debug, analyze failures, and improve automation stability and coverage.
• Work with GoLang and JavaScript for backend or frontend automation (plus).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software testing (both Manual and automation) experience.
• Strong experience in automated testing of REST APIs, frontend, and backend applications.
• Proficiency in Python (pytest) for writing automation test scripts.
• Experience with web UI automation tools like Playwright or Selenium.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integrating test automation into the development workflow.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
• Experience with Golang and JavaScript is a plus.

Desired Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with performance and security testing.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP, including deploying and managing EC2, VPC, and related services.
• Familiarity with security products and their testing methodologies.

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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

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Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.