Role & 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 challenges
- Conduct deep-dive investigations into customer-reported bugs, performance degradations, false positives/negatives, and configuration issues
- Work directly with customer security, QA, and DevOps teams to validate WAF deployments, reproduce issues, and verify fixes
- Design and execute customer-specific test scenarios to validate WAF configurations before production deployment
- Provide technical QA expertise during customer war rooms, helping troubleshoot and validate fixes for security incidents
- Build strong relationships with enterprise customers, becoming their trusted advisor for quality and testing practices

Security & Network Testing Expertise

- Design and execute comprehensive security test cases for OWASP Top 10, zero-day vulnerabilities, and emerging attack vectors
- Validate WAF detection capabilities against real-world attack patterns, payloads, and evasion techniques
- Develop test harnesses for complex networking scenarios across Layer 3-7, including TLS/SSL, HTTP/2, WebSockets, gRPC, and HTTP/3
- Create automated tests for DDoS mitigation, bot detection, API security, and application-layer attack scenarios




- Validate WAF performance under various load conditions, attack patterns, and traffic profiles
- Test edge cases involving protocol violations, malformed requests, and RFC compliance
- Collaborate with security research teams to translate threat intelligence into comprehensive test coverage

Test Automation & Tooling Development

- Build and maintain robust test automation frameworks for WAF rule testing, traffic replay, and attack simulation
- Develop tools for log analysis, metrics collection, and automated validation of security events
- Create performance testing infrastructure to validate WAF throughput, latency, and resource utilization at scale
- Implement CI/CD test pipelines for continuous validation of WAF rules and detection capabilities
- Design test data generation tools for creating realistic traffic patterns, attack payloads, and edge cases
- Build customer environment simulation frameworks to reproduce production issues in test environments

Quality Leadership & Process Improvement

- Mentor QA engineers and developers on testing best practices, security testing, and quality methodologies
- Drive quality metrics, defect analysis, and root cause investigations for production issues
- Participate in design reviews to provide testability feedback and identify potential quality risks
- Champion shift-left testing practices and test-driven development within the engineering team
- Participate in on-call rotations for critical enterprise customer quality issues

Preferred candidate profile

- 8+ years of software quality assurance and test engineering experience, with at least 3 years in security-focused testing roles
- 3+ years testing WAF, firewalls, CDN, load balancers, reverse proxies, or similar security/networking products
- Proven track record of handling enterprise customer quality escalations and validating complex deployments
- Experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks for large-scale distributed systems
- Robust background in customer-facing QA roles such as quality engineering for enterprise products, technical support, or solutions validation

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