We are seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer in Test to join our Web Application Firewall (WAF) team as a quality leader and technical architect. This critical role combines deep QA expertise with customer-facing responsibilities, serving as the quality champion for our enterprise customers and engineering teams. You will be the go-to expert for complex customer quality escalations, test architecture, and ensuring our WAF solutions meet the highest standards of reliability, security, and performance.
As a Staff QA Engineer on the WAF team, you'll work at the intersection of quality assurance, cybersecurity, and customer success. You'll design comprehensive test strategies for complex security scenarios, validate customer deployments, debug production quality issues, and ensure our enterprise customers can deploy our WAF with confidence. This role requires someone who can think strategically about quality architecture while being hands-on enough to write test code, analyze test results, and investigate customer-reported issues.

Responsibilities:




Quality Architecture & Test Strategy Leadership
- Design and architect comprehensive test strategies for WAF security rules, threat detection, and attack mitigation capabilities
- Define quality standards, testing methodologies, and acceptance criteria for enterprise-grade WAF deployments
- Create test frameworks and automation infrastructure for functional, security, performance, and integration testing
- Develop reference test architectures for various deployment scenarios (cloud, on-premise, hybrid, multi-CDN)
- Lead test strategy reviews and provide guidance on test coverage, regression testing, and quality metrics
- Establish best practices for security testing, including OWASP Top 10 validation, false positive/negative testing, and attack simulation

Enterprise Customer Quality Support & Escalations
- Serve as the primary quality escalation point for critical enterprise customer issues and deployment challenge

📌 QA Staff Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Barracuda Networks
📍 Bengaluru