Staff SDET - Austin, TX

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.

At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.

AI Fearlessly.

Location: This is a hybrid role and requires in-office presence at our Austin, TX office three days per week.

Position Summary:

The Staff SDET role will help to build and maintain TrendAI's on-prem & cloud product's continuous build, Automated Testing, and release infrastructure as code. It includes development of automated system test cases, enhancements in the automation framework, integrating the tests in the existing/new CI pipelines, enhancing CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining the existing infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Works with cross-functional teams (Developers, Test Engineers) and create effective Test plans for various functional areas of network security products.

• Execute manual and automated test cases of network security products and SaaS offering from Trend.

• Contribute towards enhancing test automation framework for functional and system test cases.

• Design & Implement automation around our cloud infrastructure: build, test, deploy and release process.

• Test network protocol handling across TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS/SSL, and application-layer protocols to ensure proper inspection and policy enforcement.

• Leverage AI tools to optimize and streamline workflows

• Monitor and enhance metrics collection, feedback management and alerting solutions.

• Active participation in agile ceremonies to plan and execute software test plans.

• Collaborate with development teams in defect discovery, resolution, reproduction, and verification.

• Setup of test environments in the test lab

• Understanding new tools/technologies and implementing backend and frontend solutions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of experience in software testing, QA automation, or SDET roles, preferably in cybersecurity, network security, or enterprise infrastructure products.

• Strong in Python, familiar with Java/C/React

• AWS, Azure or other public cloud service providers infrastructure exposure in practice or coursework

• Terraform, CloudFormation or other infrastructure provisioning tools.

• Familiarity with packet capture and network analysis tools (Wireshark and tcpdump).

• Experience troubleshooting networks, security appliances, or centralized management platforms.

• CI/CD processes and tools (Jenkins, Jenkins X, GitHub Actions etc.)

• Version control systems (GitHub)

• Agile software development

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present and convey technical ideas to a varied technical audience.

• Experience in working on Linux environment, VMware & KVM

What We Offer You:

You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. TrendAI provides benefit options for you and your family.

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Short & Long Term Disability

• Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave

• Mental Health Wellness Program

• Adoption Assistance

• Wellness Incentive

• Pet Insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Paid Time Off

• 14 Annual Holidays

• Tuition Assistance

• Employee Resource Groups

We offer competitive compensation with bonus opportunity tied to company performance, along with room to enhance your skills through ongoing learning and broad technological opportunities. Achieving work-life balance is a priority, complemented by team activities, fostering an environment rooted in equity, inclusion, and collaboration, that is reflected in both our culture and our work.

Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.

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