Mid to Sr. to Lead Software QA / Test Engineer – SASE - High Growth Network Security Company

Software QA / Test Engineer – SASE - High Growth Network Security Company

(multiple openings from Mid to Sr. to Lead )

San Jose, CA (you can work from home 1x/week)

The company is in the SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) and SD-WAN networking space.

The company has raised a large amount of funding from top investors and is expecting an IPO in the next 1-2 years. It has almost 1,000 employees (roughly double what it was 4 years ago), and 250 engineers, and is rapidly growing.

In this role, you will be contributing to validating the reliability, security, and scalability of a cloud-native secure access platform used by enterprise and service provider environments. The system is designed to deliver secure connectivity and policy enforcement across distributed users, devices, and applications.

You will be collaborating closely with product engineering, security specialists, and DevOps teams while designing and executing comprehensive validation strategies across networking, security, and policy control layers. This position has direct impact on the quality of mission-critical infrastructure deployed globally.

The company will pay a salary commensurate with experience (ranging from $140k-$250k), plus equity.

Job Responsibilities:

- Designing, developing, and executing comprehensive test plans and test cases covering SASE platform features, services, and integration scenarios.

- Performing end-to-end functional and regression validation of SASE and SSE capabilities, spanning networking, security enforcement, and policy management planes.

- Validating client-gateway interactions and platform behavior across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android environments.

- Testing and certifying network security features including IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), next-generation firewall, and multi-factor authentication workflows.

- Validating advanced SSE capabilities such as CASB, DLP, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), endpoint posture assessment, and Remote Browser Isolation (RBI).

- Architecting, implementing, and maintaining automation frameworks and test scripts for SASE component and client integration testing, ensuring scalable and repeatable coverage.

- Reproducing and systematically troubleshooting customer-reported issues in lab environments; collaborating with engineering teams on root-cause analysis and defect resolution.

- Authoring detailed defect reports including diagnostic logs, packet captures, and environmental metadata; verify bug fixes and document regression outcomes.

- Participating in feature design reviews, sprint planning, test strategy sessions, and release-readiness validation cycles.

Qualifications:

- Strong understanding of computer networking: TCP/IP, routing, switching, DNS, and network security principles.

- Solid experience validating IPSec VPN and SSL VPN solutions in enterprise or service-provider environments.

- Experience testing SASE, SSE, and/or SD-WAN platforms from an end-to-end quality perspective.

- Proficiency with network diagnostics and troubleshooting tools, including packet capture analysis (Wireshark/tcpdump) and system-level diagnostics.

- Experience designing and maintaining QA automation frameworks and scripting test workflows (Python, Bash, or equivalent).

- Understanding of OS-level debugging tools and system internals on Windows, macOS, and/or Linux platforms.

Nice to have:

- Track record qualifying networking or VPN products across heterogeneous OS environments (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux).

- Familiarity with enterprise authentication mechanisms including LDAP, RADIUS, SAML 2.0, PKI certificates, and multi-factor authentication.

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