Principal Software Dev QA Engineer

Fortinet

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Work type: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Fortinet

Fortinet is a US-based cybersecurity company best known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls. It sells a broad security platform spanning network security, SD-WAN, endpoint protection, cloud security, and SIEM/SOC operations.

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The Principal Software Dev QA Engineer joins the AI security product line to own end-to-end testing for an AI-powered penetration testing product. This role covers both SaaS and on-premises deployments, requiring a hands-on approach to ensure assessments run safely while producing accurate and verifiable findings. The primary responsibilities include setting the overall quality strategy and establishing release criteria for the product. The successful candidate will perform test automation, apply offensive security expertise, and conduct AI evaluation to validate the system's performance. Key skills required for this position include proficiency in test automation, offensive security techniques, and AI evaluation methodologies. The work focuses on the technical challenge of ensuring that automated penetration testing tools provide reliable security insights across diverse deployment environments.

Skills

Test Automation Offensive Security AI Evaluation SaaS On-premises QA Penetration Testing

What you'll do

Own end-to-end testing for AI-powered penetration testing products across SaaS and on-premises deployments.
Develop and execute test automation for AI security products.
Apply offensive security expertise to validate product security features.
Perform AI evaluation to ensure assessments produce accurate and verifiable findings.
Define the overall quality strategy and release criteria for the product line.
Ensure all AI-driven security assessments run safely and reliably.

What we're looking for

Experience in end-to-end testing of AI-powered penetration testing products.
Experience testing across both SaaS and on-premises deployments.
Expertise in test automation.
Expertise in offensive security.
Experience in AI evaluation.
Ability to set quality strategy and release criteria.

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