Engineer III, Software

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

F5 Inc. is in pursuit of an exceptional and motivated Test Engineer to play a pivotal role in our team, to help deliver the utmost quality product in our BIGIP NEXT SPK/CNF team. Be a part of highly technical, collaborative, and supportive environment to contribute to the revolutionary cloud native solutions for secure traffic management and application delivery. 

Position Summary

• Be responsible and an advocate for the overall quality of the SPK/CNF product and features that the team develops

• Develop detailed test plans for the features and components under your purview, ensuring a comprehensive approach to testing excellence.

• Actively participate in test plan and bug reviews, contributing to the collective effort to enhance the product’s quality and robustness.

• Responsible for performing tests as defined in the test plans for the features that the team delivers, hence identifying existing and new issues and bottlenecks, playing a key role in elevating the BIGIP NEXT SPK/CNF quality and performance.

• Contribute to the development of a cutting-edge Test Framework and Tools as required, demonstrating your commitment to innovation in the testing domain.

• Responsible for supporting the customers by resolving the issues reported. 

• Work very closely with architects, leads, cross-functional teams and other stakeholders, you will strengthen F5’s security technology offerings. 

• Join a collaborative and supportive team, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

Essential

• Knowledge of OSI Layer-1 to 7 including LAN switches, routers, tunnels, general TCP/IP and associated protocols preferred.

• Must have experience and knowledge of Linux networking including networking protocols, architecture, and technologies (HTTP(S), TCP/IP, ...)

• Good understanding of network security Firewall modules (ACL, NAT, DOS)

• Must have knowledge on different Kubernetes concepts.

• A skilled coder in Python or GO language. 

• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD pipelines and can Investigate and fix test pipeline failures.

• Knowledge and experience with test methodologies used in software development.

• Prior testing experience with similar products

Nice-to-have 

• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. 

Qualifications

• Requires a minimum of 5 years related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 3 years' experience with Masters’ degree

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.