Principal SQA Engineer (sdwan Solution)

Principal SQA Engineer (SDWAN Solution)

Palo Alto Networks SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) group is looking for a seasoned and accomplished Principal SQA engineer with experience in validating core networking, security features & solution testing in the SD-WAN team. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking technologies in the SD-WAN area. You will work with a multi-functional team of engineers solving interesting problems.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your impact includes:

• Work in a small and fast paced team to solve important customer problems and deliver most impactful results
• Contribute in all phases of end to end product and solution validation
• Works closely with PM, TME, Customer support teams to understand the customer use cases
• Work with different development and quality assurances groups to achieve the best quality
• Suggest and implement improvements to the QA process
• Work with DevOps and the Technical Support teams to troubleshoot customer issues
• Lead technical discussions, mentor junior team members, and support customer deployments as needed.

Your experience includes:

• 10 to 18 years of relevant experience, with a BS or MS degree
• Expertise with standard TCP/IP protocols such as ARP, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP & IPSec VPNs
• Expertise in testing of Layer 2/3 networking, routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF & EIGRP, MPLS, IPSec, QoS, NAT, and policies etc.
• Expertise in networking features like Multicast, IPv6, DNS, NAT & DHCP
• Expertise in System, Solution, Scale, Performance, interoperability, and failover testing of SD-WAN solutions
• Own the test strategy, architecture, and execution plans for enterprise-scale SD-WAN solutions.
• Be able to build and maintain complex networking testbeds
• Expertise with performance characterization of a networking products
• Expertise in test orchestration, control plane, data plane, and security features of SD-WAN platforms
• Proficient in using traffic generators (Ixia, Spirent), protocol analyzers (Wireshark), and monitoring tools
• Expertise with Automation/Programming using Python and RestAPI's
• Design and implement test frameworks, environments, and automation for system-level validation.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXi, qemu/kvm, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging/troubleshooting skills and a customer-focused mindset