About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at
www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
The Performance, Scalability and Reliability (PSR) team is responsible for performance testing of all Sophos NSG products such as the Firewalls, Secure Wifi Access points and switches. The team uses various hardware load generators from companies such as Spirent and Keysight to performance benchmark firewall features such as IPS, Web-filtering, Threat protection etc. The performance tests measure thruput, connection capacity, connection rate and latency. The tests are designed to assess how well an application can scale with increased load. Other tests include firewall configuration capacity and real-world application traffic mix performance and longevity. Access Point tests include single and multi-client performance in single and multi-band environments, Rate versus orientation versus range performance benchmarking, and roaming performance in mesh test setups.
We are looking for a Quality Engineer to join our Network Security Group in India to develop, automate, execute and maintain performance test suites and scenarios of our products. The Performance Test Team of the Sophos Network Security Group is responsible for designing, developing and executing automated test suites to test the performance, scalability and reliability of all of Sophos' industry leading Firewall, Secure Wi-Fi, and Secure Web Gateway products. Sophos NSG develops industry leading Firewall, Cloud Switch and Secure Wi-Fi, and Secure Web Gateway products.
What you will do
- Automate required Performance, stress, Load, Reliability/Longevity tests for the features and functionalities of our products by understanding the underlying architecture to uncover potential bottlenecks in performance, find defects, risks, issues following the highest Quality Engineering test methodologies and standards
- Work closely with development, product management and other cross functional teams and participate in requirements reviews, design and code reviews, all the way until product is released.
- Learn and implement performance test cases that give insight into customer deployment scenarios and run performance tests as early in the release cycle as it is realistically possible to identify and flush out potential defects in the product well in advance (shift left testing)
- Run performance and analysis testing against competitive products
- Present and help in analyzing the performance test results, debug and help in root causing the defects found, and help in baselining and benchmarking the results.
What you will bring
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering, Computer Information technology or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of 3-4 years of total experience in Automation testing.
- Should have experience in testing Firewalls and other Network Security appliances
- Good understanding of network security applications, including (but not limited to) firewalls, IPS, IDS (e.g. Snort), routing, switching, IPsec and SSL
- Experience in using commercial performance test tools such as Spirent Avalanche, Keysight/Ixia Breaking Point, JMeter, etc.
- Knowledge/work experience in application level protocols: TCP, UDP, SNMP, HTTP, FTP, DNS, SSL
- Good working knowledge of Jira for issue and project tracking
- Proficiency with Python, and Linux Bash shell scripting
- Proficiency in Linux and open source tools such as iPerf, tcpdump and wireshark.
- Deep understanding of the quality process, testing strategies, and Agile test methodologies
- Excellent communication skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team.
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What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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