Senior Software Engineer in Test

Boston, MA, United States

Description Who is Tenable?

Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 60 percent of the Fortune 500, 40 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!

What makes Tenable such a great place to work?

Ask a member of our team and they’ll answer, “Our people!” We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you’re part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!

Your Role:

Tenable is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test (SET) to join Tenable’s Engineering organization to support our mission of efficient delivery of high quality solutions to our customers' security problems. Focused on enabling customers to detect and respond effectively to new and emerging security threats across their IT landscape, the Tenable engineering organization is working at the cutting edge in this critical security space. In this role, you will be responsible for the testing strategy and execution for a product scrum team, charged with helping your engineering team design and implement the testing tools and infrastructure necessary to ensure that our systems meet our customer’s expectations towards reliability, scalability and performance. You’ll bring in expertise on testing strategy and execution and engage in cross-functional collaboration with other product and testing teams, to ensure consistent processes and tooling across engineering to deliver software of the highest quality.

Your Opportunity:

Get in on the ground floor: in this role, you'll have a broad scope with an opportunity to take on new responsibilities and grow as an engineer. As a senior member of the organization it will be on you to help drive the testing strategy for your team, and to set high standards across our teams

Innovate: As an organization, we run an “Innovation Sprint” at the start of every quarter where engineers can work on their own feature ideas, or try out new technologies.. You can demo your work in front of the rest of the company and pair up with people from other teams

Learn new things: We provide a training budget for you to attend conferences or workshops

Raise the bar: We are always looking for ways to improve ourselves, our tech stack, and our product’s features. Bring your ideas and experiences to the table and help make a lasting impact

Collaborate: Work closely with Product Managers, other engineers, designers, and stakeholders to continuously iterate on our products and drive consensus. You will have the opportunity to support and mentor your peers inside and outside your team

Work at scale: You will have the ability to magnify your work by automating tests and ensuring quality of our solutions at all levels of the "test pyramid"

Show impact: You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on outcomes for our customers to ensure that they maintain the best experience when using our cloud platform

What You'll Need:

5+ years software testing experience with a focus on functional test definition and test planning, test automation at all levels of the testing pyramid, and scalability and load testing and performance tooling in large scale, distributed systems

Experience in Python, Selenium and Pytest. Willingness to learn new languages as needed

Excellent analytical skills, with experience summarizing test results into meaningful reports to effectively communicate test coverage and code quality, as well as scalability, capacity and performance issues

Experience monitoring for defects and issues post-production, creating observability and logging strategies, and translating findings from production environments into actionable tests in development and staging environments

Solid experience with test harnesses and frameworks, such as pytest, Jest, Jasmine, Spock, Cucumber, etc. and with test automation and testing applications at the API layer, specifically RESTful APIs

Experience in different testing methodologies, such as: behavior-driven testing, synthetic testing, consumer-driven contract testing, unit testing, and integration testing

For roles on our Tenable WAS team, experience with testing in a microservices cloud-based architecture is a must

Experience in test management tools such as X-ray

Experience in System/AWS administration, TCP/IP networking, including protocol capture and analysis, system resource monitoring including OS-native tools and popular resource monitoring and log analysis stacks (ELK, TIG stack, Datadog, Splunk) is a plus

Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform), container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker), event store/messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) is a strong plus

Accountability for the behavior of your team’s software in production

Experience coaching and leading mid-level and junior staff in the design, implementation, and execution of highly technical development projects

Experience in working in an Agile team, and an enthusiasm for working collaboratively within and across product teams

The ability to work independently and as a part of a team, and to lead/drive projects as necessary

The desire to continuously learn and be exposed to new technologies

BS in Computer Science or directly related field, or equivalent work experience

If you’ve reached this point, and you’re still not sure if you should apply…..Just do it! We’re human and we don’t fit a perfect mold. Having diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, that’s a good thing! If you’re coming from outside of the cyber industry - great! If you’re looking to try something new - awesome! All we ask is you bring passion to all that you do, crave creativity and innovation, and embrace the hard work of gaining new skills and accepting big challenges.

The base salary range for this position is $100,000.00 - $133,333.33 USD. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, location and experience, and may fall outside of the range shown. Employees are also eligible for variable compensation in addition to base pay (commission for sales roles, bonus for non-sales roles), depending on company and individual performance. Tenable also offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefits which include: medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; 401(k) retirement savings with company match; an employee stock purchase plan; an employee referral program; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); education assistance; parental leave; paid time off (PTO); company-paid holidays; health and wellness events; and community programs.

We’re committed to promoting Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Tenable - through all equal employment opportunity laws and regulations at the international, federal, state and local levels.  If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact  [email protected] for further assistance.