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.
About the F5 Automation Test Engineer Team
At F5, we make apps faster, smarter, and safer. Come work within the security dev group in an exciting, fast-paced environment charting the course for F5s future. Join an effort to provide solutions for F5 to help secure our customers applications and APIs. Contribute to modern services that are performant, reliable, secure, and scalable within a company known for our excellent culture.
F5 Products enable enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications, as well as deliver new, microservicesbased applications in a safe and secure manner.
Position Summary:
You will be responsible for the design and execution of test plans and test cases; implementation and maintenance of automated testing of our products! This includes creating test plans and automation for large projects based on product documentation and functional specifications; creating, documenting, and using software test tools, test automation, and test cases; executing tests; documenting test results; and validating product defects.
Primary Responsibilities:
Understand product design and functionality through hands on experience
Implement and maintain automated tests. Execute, analyze and debug results of product test automation.
Improve and build automation infrastructure.
Proactively and openly communicate status, plan-of-action, and resolution of issues.
Work effectively to deliver on planned and committed schedules, through holistic ownership over assigned product areas and projects.
Openly engage on challenges with a growth mindset
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Good understanding of application layer protocols (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS)
Python programming skills
Source code version control tool such as Git
CI/CD and Agile software development experience
Knowledge and experience in RESTApi and JSON technologies
Practical experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Hands-on experience with Linux operating system, including scripting in bash
Experience with QA methodologies and software testing cycles
Pytest and Robot framework experience is a plus
Experience with traffic analysis tools (tcpdump, Wireshark) is a plus
Interest in new technologies and problems solving
Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment
Attention to details and punctuality
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to learn quickly - we value flexibility.
May require travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 5% of the time spent traveling.
Qualifications:
A degree in Computer Science or a closely related field or equivalent experience
Oneyear of automated test development or equivalent experience
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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.
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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.
