Software Engineer in Test

Who is Tenable?

Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. 44,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 45 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:

Drive the quality assurance of Tenable’s solutions by combining automated and manual testing strategies. Your role includes designing tools to verify resiliency and performance, performing hands-on exploratory testing, and maintaining the test infrastructure and reporting pipelines.


Your Opportunity:

• Understands the Tenable product portfolio, and is an expert in testing methodologies to verify functionality, operability and performance of Tenable’s solutions
• Expertly develops test automation frameworks and/or develops automated tests using the frameworks for end to end solution acceptance
• Evaluate effectiveness of quality initiatives (e.g. automation, manual tests, bug bounties, etc) and lead projects to improve
• Performs manual, exploratory and performance testing to help identify areas of risk, that may not be automated yet
• Obsessed with quality of products
• Eager to learn
• Can lead/drive testing initiatives
• May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time

What You'll Need:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in manual testing methodologies.

• Proven experience testing enterprise-level products.

• Strong sense of initiative, with the ability to work effectively both independently (self-directed) and collaboratively within a team.

• A genuine enthusiasm for finding defects ("breaking things") and a keen eye for detail and data validation.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Familiarity with the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, estimation, development, quality control.

• Experience working with PRDs, and writing STP STD documents.

• Experience working with different teams and stakeholders (Devs, PMs, TLs).

• Solid understanding of SQL for data validation purposes.

• Background in Cybersecurity - Advantage.

And Ideally:

• Working in a cloud infrastructure security-oriented company 

• Working on applications running on cloud infrastructures like AWS, Azure, GCP.

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 Recruiting@Tenable.com for further assistance.

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