QA Engineer – System and Network F/M

Stormshield; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Innovation Time Off

Holiday bonuses, profit‑sharing &

Airbus ESOP

Sick child leave

Positive Company‑labelled enterprise

Job summary

Stormshield, éditeur français de cybersécurité et filiale d'Airbus D&S, recherche un QA Engineer – System and Network pour renforcer son équipe QA. Vous déployez et construisez des environnements IT (switches, routeurs, firewalls, serveurs) pour tester nos pare-feu Stormshield dans diverses configurations et automatiser les tests.

Vous analyserez le comportement du produit face au trafic réseau généré et fournirez des analyses et recommandations aux équipes développement.

Qualifications

• Expérience en QA pour systèmes et réseaux.
• Capacité à concevoir et maintenir des tests automatisés et manuels.
• Analyse et diagnostic des performances et du trafic réseau.

Responsibilities

• Définir les approches et plans de test pour de nouvelles fonctionnalités du pare-feu.
• Concevoir et maintenir des tests (automatisés ou manuels) pour assurer la reproductibilité.
• Déployer des laboratoires avec divers équipements pour reproduire les environnements de production des clients.
• Tester et mesurer les performances des développements et des produits (capacité, charges).
• Enrichir et maintenir nos infrastructures de test en condition opérationnelle.
• Diagnostiquer les défaillances et proposer des améliorations concernant les solutions de sécurité.
• Soutenir les équipes Stormshield dans la reproduction et l’analyse des incidents reportés.

Job description

Job Summary

• TEAM:
  Stormshield Network Security (SNS)




• CONTRACT:
  CDI




• LOCATION:
  Paris




• REMOTE WORK:
  3 days per week

QA Engineer – System and Network: at a glance

Stormshield, the leading French publisher and a reference European player in cybersecurity, is a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space Cyber Programmes and offers innovative, certified and European‑level qualified security products for protecting networks and data. To continue our growth, we are looking for a Senior Systems & Network Engineer.

Within a dynamic and creative team, you will help strengthen our Quality Assurance group on our flagship solutions. You will independently deploy and build various IT system and network environments (switches, routers, firewalls, servers and applications) in order to test Stormshield firewalls in many configurations.

You will analyse how our products behave with the network traffic you generate and will provide analysis and recommendations to our development teams.

If you are motivated, you will enjoy assembling network labs while also developing automated tests.

What are the responsibilities of the QA Engineer - System and Network?

• Define approaches and test plans for new firewall features;




• Design and maintain tests (automated or manual) to ensure reproducibility;




• Assist development teams by deploying labs with varied equipment to replicate customers’ production environments;




• Test and measure performance of software developments and our products in general (capacity limits, load testing…);




• Enrich and keep our testing infrastructures in operational condition;




• Diagnose failures of our security solutions for remediation (reproduction, system & network lab‑building, analysis…);




• Propose improvements to enhance product functionality and quality;




• Support Stormshield teams (technical support, pre‑sales, developers…) in reproducing and analysing reported issues.

What is the technical environment?

• Performance measurement tools: Spirent Test Center, Spirent Avalanche, Spirent Cyberflood, Cisco TRex Realistic Traffic Generator




• Networks: TCP/IP networking, network security, VPN, firewall




• Ecosystem: Linux, FreeBSD




• Scripting: Perl, Shell




• Virtualised environments: VMware, KVM

Which team?

You will join the SNS team led by Vincent. This team counts about twenty people: developers, testers, tech‑leaders, Scrum Master, Product Owner. You will become part of a Scrum Team of 5‑7 people (Scrum/Kanban). Collaboration is at the core of our way of working; teams are self‑managed and decide on their delivery commitments.

Which product?

You will work on Stormshield firewalls that make up our Stormshield Network Security (SNS) portfolio. By securing the network, an enterprise firewall protects the company from most cyber‑attacks. For more information about our products, you can visit the dedicated page on Stormshield firewalls.

The + Stormshield

• Innovation Time Off




• Holiday bonuses, profit‑sharing & incentive participation




• Airbus ESOP




• Sick child leave




• Positive Company‑labelled enterprise with two stars

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Recruitment Process

1

A first conversation with Alaix, the recruiter, to discuss what you are currently doing and how we could work together.

2

A phone interview with Vincent, a first point to explain in more detail how the team works and the vision for the role.

3

A technical interview with Vincent and part of his team, focused on development exercises.

4

A final HR interview with Sylvie.

Stormshield's commitments

We welcome all applications, regardless of social or cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs of the candidates.

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