Networking Qa Engineer jobs at Checkpoint in India, Bengaluru

We're looking for a highly experienced and motivated Networking QA Engineer with excellent problem-solving and debugging skills. If you're passionate about quality in the world of SASE solutions, then join our team.

• You will be highly involved in SASE’s development process, starting from the requirement gathering, prioritization, and documentation.
• You will test our network-oriented features from its very early stage and will be able to affect its feature quality, ensuring that the code is always shippable.
• You will work with ‘first line’ network devices while constantly maintaining knowledge along with newest technology changes.

• Prepare and execute feature test plan for cross team features
• Simulate and investigate customers’ use cases in complex network environments
• Participate in Pre-Release Regression cycles
  - Reflect status on progress
• Lead your team to higher quality
  - Monitor quality KPI’s and processes of the team and work on mitigations when needed (such as escaping bugs, testing coverage, zero Bug policy etc)
  - Mentor and monitor your team to follow best practices of SDLC with High Quality
  - Investigate Escaping bugs and provide RCA
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Be able to reflect clear status on process

• Proven hands-on networking and/or network security engineering experience
• Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, VPN, VRRP, BGP, OSPF, HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP)
• 3 years’ experience with planning, configuring, building networks from scratch involving elements such as: Firewalls/Routers/VPN Concentrators of top-5 vendors such as: (Palo Alto/Check Point/Cisco/Juniper/Fortinet)
• 3 years' experience with conducting different software QA testing types (functional and non-functional) and QA methodologies
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Consistently demonstrates a high level of integrity and professionalism
• High attention to detail
• Networking and Security certificates such as CCNA, JNCIA and CCSE - Advantage
• Experience in testing WEB applications - Advantage
• Knowledge in Amazon AWS or Azure - Advantag

You will be responsible for

• Winning Sales opportunities by working closely with the partner sales team - identify prospects, progress sales opportunities and help win them demonstrating the Check Point value-proposition
• Partner enablement – Sales & presales
• Drive and Maintain Partner presales certifications to help them maintain their partnership levels and ensure active technical engagement in joint opportunities.
• Present the Check Point story at key forums, including partner led customer events & workshops
• Handholding and jointly conducting POCs and assessments along with partner technical / presales community for prospect customers
• Lead with value-driven conversations with potential and existing customers with ability identify business problems and provide winning solutions
• Become a trusted Cybersecurity advisor for your partner technical community, handling technical questions, presenting Check Point value with the solutions offered
• Demonstrate strong knowledge on Cybersecurity industry developments including tackling competitive threats in sales opportunities
• Help partners respond to RFI’s & RFP’s, share best practices, manage Proof-of-Concepts that translate to best CX through the sales cycle
• Engage and enable key partners and customers on the latest security technologies
• Demonstrate sales acumen through clever positioning of Check Point’s products for optimum cross-sell and Upsell along with partners in their base accounts
• Deliver high impact customer engagements, solution design, winning proposals and uphold the leadership position of Check Point
• Participate and showcase Check Point’s solutions during cyber security events

What you bring to the table

• 6+ years of proven experience in technology organizations with over 4-6 years of direct system engineering and pre-sales experience
• Strong customer centricity with focus on delivering the best experience for customers
• Ability to roll-up the sleeve when required to address gating challenges
• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent understanding of networking technologies combined with strong understanding of design and applications
• Ability to create an end-to-end security solution for a customer’s environment
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Relevant certifications highly preferred, e.g. CCNP / CISSP/ CCSA / CCSE
• An engineering degree in Computer, Electronics or similar disciplines

As the QA Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading the QA Owners team within our organization. Your primary objective will be to ensure the delivery of high-quality and reliable products and services by establishing and maintaining best practices, processes, and standards across the QA guild.

Develop and implement QA strategies, policies, and procedures aligned with organizational goals and objectives.

Training and Development: Identify training needs and opportunities for professional development within the QA guild and facilitate training sessions or workshops as necessary.

QA Processes: Establish and maintain effective QA processes, including test coverage review,
test planning, execution, and defect tracking.

Quality Standards: Define and enforce quality standards and best practices for software testing and quality assurance activities.

Metrics and Reporting: Define and track key quality metrics to measure the effectiveness of QA processes and drive continuous improvement.

Risk Management: Identify and assess risks related to product quality, and work with stakeholders to mitigate risks and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.

Tools and Technologies: Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and frameworks to enhance QA productivity and effectiveness.

• Previous experience in a leadership role within a QA team for at least 2 years.
• Proven hands-on networking and/or network security engineering experience
• Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, VPN, VRRP, BGP, OSPF, HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP)
• 3 years’ experience with planning, configuring, building networks from scratch involving elements such as: Firewalls/Routers/VPN Concentrators of top-5 vendors such as: (Palo Alto/Check Point/Cisco/Juniper/Fortinet)
• 3 years' experience with conducting different software QA testing types (functional and non-functional) and QA methodologies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and tools is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a team towards achieving common goals and objectives.