Technical lead - Software Quality Engineer

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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…