About the company
Come Join Our Passionate Team! At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them - in ways they may not even know they are at risk - so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.
About the team
You will join the Email Protection organization, focused on Impersonation Protection and Incident Response for Microsoft 365. The team builds and validates SaaSscale, highly distributed systems that combine AIdriven threat detection with automationheavy remediation workflows.
As a Senior SDET on this team, you will work close to realworld attack scenarios testing AIpowered detections, validating quality signals, and ensuring incident response actions are fast, safe, and reliable at scale.
Why this role
This is a seniorlevel role that goes beyond test execution. You will influence product quality at design time, shape automation architecture, and act as a quality leader across distributed engineering teams.
You are expected to operate with autonomy, lead without authority across time zones, and raise the quality bar for missioncritical email security systems.
What You'll Do
Quality Strategy & Ownership
Own and evolve the automation strategy for Email Protection systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and longterm maintainability.
Drive endtoend test strategy and define meaningful quality signals for complex, distributed SaaS systems.
Partner with engineering and product teams to influence design for testability and quality early in the SDLC.
Leadership & Influence
Mentor junior SDETs and provide technical and quality leadership across initiatives.
Influence developers, product managers, and stakeholders on quality best practices.
Lead testing efforts across time zones, collaborating and driving outcomes without direct authority.
Handson Execution
Build and maintain robust automation using modern frameworks and engineering best practices.
Perform riskbased exploratory testing where automation is insufficient or impractical.
Leverage AIassisted tools (e.g., test generation, failure analysis, quality insights) to improve coverage, productivity, and signal quality.
Technical Stack
Automation Framework: Playwright
Language: Python
CI/CD: Github, Jenkins, CircleCI
Datastores: SQL
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience in test automation using Python within complex or distributed systems.
Strong collaboration skills with developers, product managers, and crossfunctional stakeholders.
Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and lead testing efforts for projects or initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate and introduce new tools or practices to improve quality outcomes.
Preferred qualifications:
Handson experience with Playwrightbased test automation.
Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
Exposure to email security, cloud security, or largescale SaaS systems.
What you will get from us:
A team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility - there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda. In addition, you will receive equity, in the form of non-qualifying options.
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