Software Quality Engineer I

At ExtraHop, we're on a mission to help organizations achieve complete visibility, real-time threat detection, and proactive security through cutting-edge network detection and response (NDR) technology. Our NDR product is a market leader, providing our customers with the ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster than ever before.

We’re proud of the work we do and the recognition we’ve received, including our recent Gartner Peer Insights award, which reflects the trust and satisfaction our customers have in our solutions.

If you're passionate about innovation, dedicated to protecting digital infrastructures, and ready to make a real impact, we invite you to join our team and help us shape the future of cybersecurity.

Position Summary

We’re seeking a Software Quality Engineer with a passion for quality and strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) in an agile environment. The ideal candidate has excellent manual testing skills, a detail-oriented mindset, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our products meet high-quality standards. This position provides the opportunity to work on cutting-edge software solutions while ensuring high-quality standards. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and thrives in a collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute test cases and scenarios for software applications in an agile software development environment
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure the quality of software products
• Conduct end-to-end application testing across hardware, virtual and cloud environments
• “Push Quality to the Left” to identify and address issues early in designs, code, and processes to improve overall quality
• Continuously enhance testing processes and expand test coverage
• Document and track defects to resolution using JIRA or similar tools
• Manage and configure test environments

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field, Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree requiring systematic/analytical thinking
• Up to 2 years scripting and/or OOP programming experience (Python, etc.); new grads will be considered
• Curious engineer who likes to know why things break, with a passion for testing
• Experience in Test Framework development and maintenance 
• Proficiency in Linux OS 
• Familiarity with an Issue Tracking system (e.g. JIRA, Bugzilla, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes 
• Cybersecurity experience
• Background in Cloud and/or other virtualization technologies
• Familiarity with networking, database, …