SDWAN Security Test Software Engineer

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• Builds and validates next-generation secure networking solutions, especially VPN and SD-WAN.
• Brings strong QA depth in IKEv1/IKEv2, IPsec, SSL/TLS, L2/L3 protocols, and tools like Ixia/Spirent.
• Uses Python and REST API automation to improve test coverage, speed, and reliability.
• Plays a key role in the bigger picture by protecting critical infrastructure and enabling trusted connectivity.
• Supports adoption of modern security standards and best practices, including Post-Quantum Cryptography.
• Team vibe is collaborative, hands-on, and high-energy, with exciting opportunities to solve complex security challenges.

• Drive end-to-end quality assurance for secure networking solutions across VPN, SD-WAN, and next-generation security capabilities, ensuring products are resilient, compliant, and enterprise-ready.
• Own validation scope across IKEv1/IKEv2, IPsec, SSL/TLS, L2/L3 protocols, and network behaviour to reduce release risk and protect customer environments.
• Design and execute manual and automated test strategies using Python, REST APIs, and traffic-generation platforms such as Ixia and Spirent to improve coverage, speed, and defect detection.
• Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to translate requirements into repeatable test frameworks and clear quality gates, so critical features ship with confidence.
• Influence security readiness by validating modern standards and best practices, including Post-Quantum Cryptography, to future-proof customer deployments.
• Deliver measurable impact by preventing production issues, accelerating release cycles, and strengthening trust in business-critical connectivity; success looks like high product stability, faster test execution, and fewer customer-reported defects.
• Grow technical depth while solving complex real-world security challenges in a collaborative, high-energy team environment, making the role both high-ownership and highly rewarding.
• Using different AI tool fast execution and automation

Minimum Qualifications -

1-3 years of Industry experience. Hands on experience on End-to-End testing in Networking ,Security ,SDWAN, area and Python Automation

• Networking (L2/L3)
• Security VPN ( IPsec/IKE)
• Python
• AI tool usage for automation and execution
• Networking tool like Ixia and Spirent
• SDWAN testing

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