QA Automation Engineer

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.Company Overview Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web. We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.The Role We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join our new Engineering team in Ireland. You will work on one of our core SaaS solutions, with service-based architecture that allows us to scale to meet the needs of hundreds of clients that are among the largest businesses in the world.  As a QA Automation Engineer, you will play a pivotal role on one of our Scrum teams by identifying design issues, promoting and improving testability, creating and automating test cases, and identifying and reporting defects. This is a highly technical role that requires solid OO development skills (we have a custom automation test harness integrated into our backend infrastructure). Basically, we need developers who are passionate about quality and automation. In this role, you will help form and drive our overall test automation strategy, and you will be working alongside sharp, like-minded engineers as well.Your day-to-day Contribute to the delivery of high quality, testable software, from requirements analysis to acceptance testingDesign, develop and deliver automated functional and integration test casesWork with the Scrum team to deliver well-tested software in each sprintDemonstrate technical leadership and act as a mentor for other test team membersWhat you bring to the teamProven test automation experience; demonstrated ability to contribute to test automation frameworks and test suitesTest case authoring, prioritization, and organizationExperience with source control management with Git, Mercurial, SVN or equivalentExperience with Windows and Linux virtual machine managementFamiliarity with the fundamentals of Linux scripting languagesExposure to AWSExperience testing RESTful services with SoapUI or equivalentExcellent programming skills (Preference for Java)Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) based productsWhy Proofpoint  Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint#LI-CB1If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!