Experience: 8+ years in software quality engineering / SDET / test automation, including 5+ years on distributed systems, cloud services, or security/networking products. You have owned quality for a substantial product area with little supervision
Autonomy: Track record of taking an under-specified problem and driving it to a working solution, including deciding what not to do. Comfortable being the only person working on something
Programming: Strong software engineering skills in Python (preferred) or Golang. You write automation, libraries, and tooling that hold up as production software rather than as scripts
AI-Assisted Engineering: Practical experience using LLM-based tools or coding agents in real engineering work, and a clear view of where they help and where they mislead. You can point to a case where you caught what the AI missed
Debugging Depth: Demonstrated ability to isolate root cause in complex failures spanning services, infrastructure, and the network layer, rather than escalating them onward
API and Distributed Systems Testing: Extensive hands-on experience testing REST APIs, microservices, and asynchronous workflows
Test Design: Deep command of test strategy, risk-based testing, and layered test design; able to make and defend explicit trade-offs on coverage, cost, execution time, and confidence
CI/CD: Proven ability to build and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and the infrastructure that keeps large test suites reliable
Containers and Kubernetes: Strong experience running and testing services on Docker/Kubernetes, and debugging failures involving networking, service discovery, and configuration
Networking: Solid working knowledge of HTTP/S, TLS, proxy/gateway concepts, DNS, and the failure modes that affect AI Gateway deployments
Defect Management: Excellent defect isolation, triage, and tracking discipline (e.g., Jira), with follow-through until the systemic fix lands
Working with Engineering and Product: Able to hold a technical discussion with developers as a peer and to explain risk and trade-offs to product managers clearly. Exceptional verbal and written English for complex technical collaboration
GenAI Ecosystem: Familiarity with the request and response schemas of major LLM provider APIs, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Bedrock, including their streaming formats and how these APIs change over time
Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, and validating hybrid/on-prem customer deployments
Cybersecurity: Knowledge of secure web development, ZTNA, DLP, and proxy/gateway product concepts
Performance and Scale: Experience designing load and performance tests and analyzing latency/throughput for high-traffic APIs and gateways
Resilience Testing: Fault injection, chaos, or failure-mode testing of distributed services
Observability: Hands-on use of metrics/logging/tracing tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for faster test and defect triage
Education
BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree required ; MS in Computer Science or equivalent is strongly preferred
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