Senior Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

We're looking for a Senior Staff SDET to set the technical direction for test engineering across our Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) products. You'll be a hands-on technical leader. You'll design and build scalable test frameworks and infrastructure, influence product architecture for testability, and raise engineering quality standards across several teams.

You'll work closely with Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, and Product leadership so we can ship reliable, secure, high-performance identity solutions to enterprise customers at speed.

Key Responsibilities

Test architecture: Define and own the test architecture and automation strategy for the IGA platform, spanning unit, API, contract, integration, UI, and end-to-end testing.

Frameworks and infrastructure: Design, build, and evolve reusable test frameworks, tools, and test environments that scale across teams and microservices.

CI/CD quality gates: Embed automated testing deep into CI/CD pipelines. Push for fast, reliable feedback, parallel execution, and fewer flaky tests.

Domain test coverage: Lead test design for complex IGA flows, including:

Identity lifecycle (joiner, mover, leaver)

Provisioning and deprovisioning

Access requests and approvals

Certification campaigns

Connectors to systems such as Active Directory, Entra ID, SAP, Workday, ServiceNow, and SaaS apps

Technical leadership: Act as the senior technical authority on quality. Review designs and code, mentor SDETs and developers, and set best practices and standards across the division.

Shift-left and developer productivity: Partner with development teams to improve testability, contract testing, mocking and service virtualization, and test data management.

Observability and metrics: Define quality metrics and dashboards such as coverage, flakiness, defect leakage, and pipeline health, and use the data to drive decisions.

Innovation: Evaluate and introduce new tools and approaches, including AI-assisted testing, test impact analysis, and chaos engineering.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

8 or more years in software engineering or test engineering

Strong coding skills in one or more of Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or Go, with solid software design principles.

Deep experience building automation frameworks with tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, Pact, TestNG/JUnit, or pytest.

Excellent communication skills and a track record of mentoring engineers.

Experience with IAM or IGA platforms (for example SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, One Identity, or Microsoft Entra).

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.