Security QA Engineer

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Description:

Qualys is looking for a skilled Security QA Engineer with 3–4 years of experience to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for testing, validating, and ensuring the quality of our security products and solutions. You will collaborate closely with developers, security analysts, and product managers to identify issues, automate test cases, and ensure our solutions meet the highest security and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

  Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases for security products and tools.
  Validate security features, threat detection, and mitigation workflows.
  Write and maintain automated test scripts in Python.
  Perform regression, functional, integration, and security testing on Linux-based systems.
  Analyze test results, report defects, and work with developers to resolve issues.
  Set up and manage Linux-based test environments, VMs, or containers.
  Contribute to improving QA processes, test coverage, and automation frameworks.
  Document test plans, test cases, and test results clearly and thoroughly.
  Collaborate with the wider security engineering team to ensure product security and compliance with best practices.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.
  3–4 years of experience in software QA, preferably with security products.
  Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems (installing, configuring, troubleshooting).
  Proficiency in Python scripting for test automation.
  Familiarity with security concepts such as threat detection, vulnerability scanning, or incident response workflows.
  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred:

  Candidates holding a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) certification will be given preference.
  Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
  Familiarity with network security tools (IDS/IPS, firewalls).
  Knowledge of container security (Docker, Kubernetes).