Sr. / Staff SDET, AI Gateway

The role

This role drives quality for AI Gateway features, services, and APIs in SaaS and on-premises/hybrid environments. You will design test strategies, build automation, and collaborate with Engineering and Product teams.

What you will do

• Own quality for assigned features or product areas.
• Translate requirements and architecture into risk-based test plans.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests, utilities, and frameworks using Python or Golang.
• Validate APIs, backend services, gateway behavior, authentication, and policy enforcement.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD and troubleshoot pipeline and environment issues.
• Analyze failures using logs, traces, and system behavior.
• Use AI coding tools to accelerate test development and debugging.
• Work with Engineering and Product to identify risks and support release readiness.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in software quality engineering, SDET, or test automation.
• Experience testing backend services, distributed systems, cloud applications, or networking/security products.
• Strong understanding of test strategy, planning, risk-based testing, and test design.
• Strong hands-on Python or Golang skills.
• Experience with pytest or similar frameworks.
• Experience automating REST APIs, backend services, and integration workflows.
• Experience developing and troubleshooting automated test pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
• Ability to investigate failures using logs, test results, and system behavior.
• Practical experience with Docker.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, and proxy concepts.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools.

Nice to have

• Master's degree
• Experience with LLM provider APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Amazon Bedrock) and streaming behavior.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP), including hybrid/on-premises deployments.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, ZTNA, DLP, authentication, or gateway/proxy products.
• Experience with performance, load, resilience, or distributed systems testing.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience designing large-scale automation frameworks or improving QE practices across teams.

About the company

Netskope is a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era. They secure and accelerate cloud, data, and AI in real time, everywhere.