Proofpoint Hiring for Automation Engineer Job at Belfast, Northern Ireland Full Time

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Company Overview

At Proofpoint, people are at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success, and to that of our customers. We’re customer-focused, collaborative and committed to excellence. Through a culture of diversity, honesty and initiative, we deliver meaningful innovation that helps manage today’s biggest threats. With opportunities in all functions, we offer many exciting reasons to join our team.

The Role

The Proofpoint Essentials Automation Engineering team implements approaches to enhance software quality across multiple projects. This involves planning and implementation of functional and non-functional testing across the project/features.

These activities include testing new product features, identifying and logging bugs/enhancements, retesting fixed bugs, automation testing development to improve bug fixing and regression activities. The team works within engineering teams, development, DevOps and UX to contribute to improving and enhancing the overall quality of products and features provided by Proofpoint. The QA team designs, implements and executes Automated tests across multiple technologies in our product platform.

We are seeking a versatile and well-rounded Automation Engineer, to integrate into an existing team and provide QA guidance throughout the development lifecycle, requirements design through to delivery and production validation. The Automation Engineer should be able to appreciate the team is growing and to contribute actively to continuous process improvement.

Your day-to-day

Act as key member of a team working on the leading Email Security product suite on the market

Define, execute and automate tests against a complex platform, based on a wide range of technologies

Produce first-rate test plans that can be leveraged for both manual and automated testing

Play a vital role in the delivery of ambitious new features and products from engineering through to production

Contribute to the build out of our CI/CD software delivery process to support the end-to-end delivery of world class software

Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, software engineers, operations engineers and other engineers in an agile environment to deliver high quality performant code on schedule

Share knowledge with the team both formally and informally

Be ready to adapt and contribute across the wider org as needed

Develop against a complex platform, based on a wide range of technologies

Take ownership of high value technical initiatives

Contribute to the automated regression test suites and frameworks.

Contribute to, and promote, the delivery of high quality, testable software, from requirements analysis through to acceptance testing

What you bring to the team

Expertise in, or a strong desire to learn, a wide range of technologies, including:

Python, Jest/React, Selenium or similar, Perl, JUnit/Java, PHPUnit/PHP, JavaScript, SoapUI, Mountebank, Jenkins, Git, SMTP, MIME

Understanding in functional and non-functional testing

Experience in solving complex testing problems

A keen interest in automation and repeatability

Familiarity with agile development

Excellent communications skills – ability to document and verbally communicate ideas

Proven debugging and troubleshooting skills

Problem solving mentality

Desirable Experience

Good exposure to Linux

Knowledge of email technology, MTAs (e.g. Postfix), and server architecture

Exposure to SaaS-based product delivery

ISEB/ISTQB foundation (or equivalent experience)

Experience in performance testing tooling and methodologies

Experience in the preparation of test environments, e.g. build deployment; GIT or SVN repository management; Jenkins

Experience working collaboratively with Development and Product Management teams

Why Proofpoint

We are wholly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a pioneer in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner. We welcome candidates from all walks of life. Apply today and explore your future #LifeAtPFPT.

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!