What are we looking for?

The Windows Validation team is seeking an experienced automation engineer with a passion for code, quality and also cybersecurity. People who start by understanding the product’s “guts” and then find ways to beat it.

We're looking for a new team member who believes in automation and quality, is versatile and knows exactly how to improve processes and make them more efficient to make sure we have an award winning Endpoint protection product, awarded 3x in-a-row as Gartner MQ Leader (and that is capable of handling billions of events daily from the tens of millions of endpoints we protect among enterprises & public sector across the globe, incl. 4 of Fortune 10 and hundreds of Global 2000).

What will you do?

• Enhance and maintain automation tests and infrastructure.
• Work closely with other automation engineers and developers to design and implement automation tests in all components of our product with the main focus on Windows OS agent (E2E from lowlevel agent to backend, infra, APIs etc., or also agent desktop app UI)
• Develop (Python/Pytest), adjust and execute automatic tests, analyze results to ensure existing functionality, actively report and consult with development engineers to resolve problems, and recommend corrective actions.
• Planning, implementing and executing tests - from design to release.

What experience or knowledge should you bring?

• 4+ years of proven experience in test automation - developing tests using Python
• Testing software products on complex systems with system test orientation
• Ability to reproduce issues and work closely with development to resolve such
• Debugging experience and ability to investigate and triage difficult problems (such as code related to Windows kernel and OS internals, large-scale systems, protection against cyberthreats etc.)
• Experience in SW validation methodologies and concepts, testing and integration
• Strong self-management capabilities: proactive, initiative, self-learner, team player
• Experience with building and maintaining Jenkins jobs (or alternative)
• Familiarity with VMWare (or other virtualizations)

It’d be great if you have experience with / or You’d learn & gain on our team:

• Knowledge of Pytest, multi-processes/threads
• Experienced with testing infrastructure development
• Knowledge of Windows OS internals or administration or developing for Windows platform or Windows environment testing
• Big plus - previous exp. in testing cybersecurity or agent-based SW products written in C++
• Experience with AWS / GCP / Azure

Why us

You will work on real-world problems and make an impact by protecting our customers from cyber threats. You will be joining a cutting-edge project and will be able to influence the architecture, design, and structure of our core platform. You will tackle extraordinary challenges and work with the very BEST in the industry.

What we offer you

Salary from 3500 EUR/month.
Yearly % bonus depending on the performance of the company, paid out in 2 installments.
*The final base salary component can be increased accordingly to individual skills and experience of the selected candidate.

On top of that you may look forward to:

• Flexible working hours & Full remote within Slovakia; optional membership in major co-working spaces; in Czechia we also have offices in Prague or Brno
• Generous employee stock plan in the form of grant of RSUs (restricted stock units) grant not options; 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff and then quarterly
• Meal Allowance (maximum value of the employer’s contribution per day: €4.29)
• Wellbeing Allowance (€120/month)
• Flexible Time Off (on top of the standard 5 weeks of vacation)
• Flexible Paid Sick Days
• Fully Paid Short Term Sick/Short Term Nursing Leave
• Global gender-neutral Parental Leave (16 weeks, beyond the leave provided by the local laws) & Grandparent Leave
• Volunteering paid day off & Additional paid Company holidays off (e.g. 4 days in 2022)
• Pension insurance contribution
• Premium Life Insurance covered by S1
• Global Employee Assistance Program (confidential counseling related to both personal and work life matters), Wellness Coach:Mind Body Sleep app company access (sessions, audiobooks, classes, private coaching etc.)
• High-end MacBook or Windows laptop, Home-office-setup gear & on top of that additional WFH Allowance
• Udemy Business platform for Hard/Soft skills Training, internal mentoring 'MentorOne' & Support for your further educational activities/trainings
• Above-standard referral bonus
• Optional company events for those who like to meet outside of work too - mostly in Czechia expensed as business trip (sport, BBQ, charity etc.)
• DEI&B programs that promote employee resource groups like SentinelWIN (Women Inclusion Network), Blk@S1, Latinos@S1, Pan-Asian@S1, Out@S1 (LGBTQIA+) and Sentinels Who Served