Quality Analyst - Validation (Remote)

Job content

At CrowdStrike we’re on a mission - to stop breaches. Our groundbreaking technology, services delivery, and intelligence gathering together with our innovations in machine learning and behavioral-based detection, allow our customers to not only defend themselves, but do so in a future-proof manner. We’ve earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization and people – clearly confirming our industry leadership and our special culture driving it. We also offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. So if you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology where your desire to be part of a collaborative team is met with a laser-focused mission to stop breaches and protect people globally, let’s talk.

The Product

CrowdStrike Falcon Host is a two-component security product. One component is a “sensor”: a driver installed on a client machine that observes system activity and recognizes malicious behaviour, then provides on-box prevention capability and remote telemetry to the Falcon Host cloud. The cloud component aggregates sensor telemetry for each customer’s network, can correlate malicious behaviour across multiple machines, and presents our customers’ operations teams with a prioritized summary of the threats detected in their environments.

Job Responsibilities

The Sensor test team is hiring at Quality Analyst with 8 to 10 years of relevant experience whose primary responsibility will be to ensure that the Sensor Quality cross all three OS platforms is meticulously met as per the different test done by contractors and/or in-house. We are looking for someone who can co-ordinate with the contractors, help in preparedness of test environment, troubleshooting the underlying issues and validate the test result on a high-paced delivery timeline. Should be good in troubleshooting the feature functionality and reviewing test scripts for vendors, preferably in Python.

The candidate should have a fair knowledge on OS platforms, network and different test bed and environment and strategies across cloud and other hypervisor/virtulization environment.

The core of the Quality Analyst (at Engineer level) job at CrowdStrike is:

Job Description

The Job description for the QA with 8 to 10 years of relevant experience on the Validation Team is:

• Designs and develop tests and maintains a reliable testing environment and system for effectively measuring & validating Sensor features initially based on manual testing, growing into an automation framework over a period of time
• Lead, mentor, review the test plan (manual) and strategies to be adopted by the contractor and is inline to the release plan
• Corodinate and colloborates with the outsourced QA partners in India to create/monitor the test scope and validate the successful test result for their completeness both on Debug and Release builds
• Troubleshooting and reproducing the contractor or customer reported issues on functionality or performance and identifying the problematic area or isolate the pattern
• Coordinate with engineering feature teams who want to engage with our contractors for one-off and ongoing feature validation
• Ability to test run and recommend the changes for the automation script, preferably in Python
• Generate appropriate test reports in a timely manner and share it with the stakeholder to provide accurate state of the quality and efficacy of the feature
• Can communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a distributed team
  

Finally, the Sensor test team will find any of the following particularly attractive in a candidate:

• Should have an essential OS and Networking concepts and hands on knowledge of applying those for test environments
• Be able to do required tooling and/or use well-known tools and industry best practises in order to create an effective and reliable testing environment
• Has hands on experience in developing test management and system and test beds in data center, hybrid cloud and/or public cloud environment
• Having an experience on CI/CD and Jenkins is a plus
• Having a Security domain knowledge is a plus
  

Benefits

Of Working At CrowdStrike

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Competitive vacation policy
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Paid parental leave, including adoption
• Flexible work environment
• Wellness programs
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats
  

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems so we strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.