Test Development Engineer - Network

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Our Network Quality Group is looking for an excellent Network Test Development Engineer.

The position requires deep understanding and hands-on experience in design and implementation of both manual and automated tests, to ensure a high quality product delivery to Island’s customers.
As a Network Test Development Engineer, you'll own the quality of Island's Enterprise Network products: ZTNA, SWG, SASE, and VPN.

As Part of this role you will:

• Design, implement and run both manual and automated test scenarios.
• Work closely with the R&D engineering teams to ensure new features and product releases are delivered in high quality.
• Lead test solution innovations to reduce test time and improve overall product quality, covering ZTNA policy enforcement, SWG traffic inspection, SASE routing, and VPN tunneling, at both the end-to-end and component level.
• Build and manage test environments that reproduce real customer topologies, including varied network conditions, identity providers, operating systems, and browsers.
• Plan and execute manual testing for new releases where automation doesn't yet reach, and convert repeatable manual cases into automated ones.
• Fix bugs both in test suites and in various parts of Island’s customer-facing products.

Requirements

• 4+ Years of experience in manual test design.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) to write, debug and maintain test code.
• Experience in automation test development for Enterprise product - Advantage
• Strong understanding of network protocols and how traffic moves: TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, HTTP/S, proxies, and tunneling.
• Hands-on experience testing security or networking products: ZTNA, SWG, SASE, VPN, CASB, or firewalls.
• A degree in computer science or related field - Advantage

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