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Position:  Performance - QA Test Engineer
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Job Id:  2683
# of Openings:   1

Title: Performance - QA Test Engineer
Location: Corporate Headquarters, Milpitas, CA

Join one of the fastest growing companies in high technology. FireEye is transforming the IT security landscape to combat the next generation of cyber-attacks.

Ranked #4 on the Deloitte 2012 Technology Fast 500 in North America, FireEye has been featured in BusinessWeek, Bloomberg TV, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and several other mainstream media and continues to transform the security industry with its unique technology to stop advanced cyber- attacks. FireEye is the recipient of the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award as well as the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation Award. 

The unique FireEye platform provides the industry’s leading cross-enterprise threat protection technology to dynamically identify and block cyber-attacks in real time. The core of the FireEye platform is a signature-less, virtual machine-based security engine and a cloud-based threat intelligence network, which help organizations protect their assets across all primary threat vectors, including Web, email, and file. The FireEye platform is deployed in over 40 countries and more than 900 customers and partners, including over 100 of the Fortune 500. FireEye’s customers include leading enterprises in a diverse set of industries, including telecommunications providers, financial services entities, Internet search engines, social networking sites, stock exchanges, electrical grid operators, networking vendors, and oil and gas companies, as well as leading governmental agencies. Join the team that is protecting the world from the next generation of cyber-attacks!

Responsibilities:

Utilize advanced knowledge in performance testing to generate performance benchmarks, stress tests, and measure product resiliency. The ability to read the system behavior and performance from a white box perspective is essential. Experience with commercial load generation tools and reporting methodologies is required. This person will develop complex performance tests for the FireEye security appliance system to measure system performance for all management functions, user interface activities, and malware detection services. You will work with the automation team to incorporate automated performance testing methods and metric reporting. Our detection methods address the three primary vectors; web traffic, email traffic, and data at rest file systems. This person will identify potential product issues and champion their successful resolution. 

Requirements:

  •  Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field experience.
  • Must well work in a demanding, fast paced team environment
  • At least 7-10 years QA work experience testing network equipment such as Web Servers, Proxies, and Firewalls
  • Competent skills setting up and configuring networking products including Linux and Windows systems
  • Experience with traffic load generation and shaping tools such as JMETER, Spirent, IXIA, and dummynet
  • Very disciplined in collecting and documenting test metrics 

Highly desirable:

  • Experience in a scripting language (e.g. Python, Perl, etc.)
  • Knowledge of security technologies such as SSL, IPSEC, SSH, or authentication protocols such as RADIUS
  • Mobile device malware testing
  • Network experience with intrusion detection methods

FireEye, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer



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