Palo Alto Staff Software Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

940702225

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff IT Software Engineer to serve as a technical expert and strategic execution driver for our core quality and automation initiatives. This is a critical, high-impact role where you will apply your decade-plus of experience to accelerate delivery velocity, design next-generation test architectures, and embed an AI-First methodology into our daily engineering practices.

Your Impact

• Advanced Test Strategy: Define and drive the execution of the automation strategy, Implement sophisticated progression testing across key business processes to ensure continuous feature stability.

• Champion AI-First Execution: Champion the practical integration and standardization of generative AI and AI-powered co-pilot tools (e.g., Gemini, Cursor) across the team’s automation and development of workflows, synthetic data creation, and anomaly detection within our applications.

• Subject Matter Expert: Collaborating with cross-functional teams across geographies to ensure test efficiency and effectiveness to cover meaningful test coverage

• Contributing to automation development, CI/CD pipelines, and innovative quality solutions like test data management and heuristic analysis

Your Experience

• 10+ years of progressive, hands-on experience in Quality Engineering, Software Development in Test (SDET), or a highly related technical role.

• Expert knowledge in designing and maintaining robust, enterprise-scale test automation frameworks (e.g., using Pytest, Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured).

• Demonstrated experience in a Staff or equivalent senior technical role, showing the ability to influence technical direction across multiple projects or teams.

• Deep practical experience utilizing or integrating AI/ML concepts and generative AI tools (like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Gemini) to significantly boost test development and data management productivity.

• Exceptional ability to design test strategies for complex, distributed systems, microservices, and end-to-end business processes.

• Proven history of technical mentorship and elevating the skills of peer and junior engineers.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent military experience required.

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