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What We Do

Shape the future of cybersecurity at Forescout. Every day cyberattacks threaten to disrupt hospitals, power grids, financial systems, and the infrastructure we all depend on. At Forescout, we build the defenses that keep civilization running smoothly in an increasingly connected world.

For more than 25 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats. From power grids and healthcare systems to financial networks and transportation hubs, Forescout protects the critical infrastructure of our modern world.

(Only U.S. Citizens will be considered for this position.)

(Hybrid position two days a week, Wed/Thurs, in the Plano office.)

What You Will Do

Forescout is seeking a highly motivated SDET (QA Automation Engineer) to join our U.S. Federal Cloud team to ensure quality and compliance for mission-critical SaaS workloads in Azure. You will design and execute automated test strategies for FedRAMP environments, working closely with Cloud Architecture, DevSecOps, and Compliance teams.

Operate at scale in Azure while contributing to FedRAMP High initiatives that demand rigor, reliability, and speed. Your work will directly impact customers running some of the world’s most critical networks. The ideal candidate brings excellent automation testing skills, attention to detail, and the initiative to fill gaps to ensure product quality in a SaaS (cloud) environment.

Test Planning & Design: Analyze product requirements and develop comprehensive test strategies. Create well-structured test plans and test cases to validate new features and system behavior.

Automated Testing Development: Develop and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks for both front-end and back-end components of our cloud-based applications. This includes scaling UI and API test suites to increase regression coverage across multiple deployments.

Manual & Exploratory Testing: Execute both manual and automated tests to verify functionality across various areas of the product. Validate security and compliance controls (RBAC, patching, logging) through automated test suites. Generate test execution reports as evidence for audits

Defect Tracking & Resolution: Identify, document and track software defects using our bug tracking system (e.g. Jira). Work closely with developers to reproduce issues, troubleshoot root causes and verify fixes ensuring timely resolution of all high-priority bugs.

Regression & Performance Testing: Improve and scale our test frameworks for regression and performance testing. Continuously enhance internal testing tools (e.g. expanding automated regression suites) and contribute to performance testing efforts to ensure the application meets scalability and response time goals

Quality Best Practices: Ensure that QA best practices and processes are followed at all stages. Proactively review requirements and design documents for testability and provide feedback to improve product quality and user experience.

CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Monitor test results from CI runs (e.g. in Jenkins/GitHub Actions) and work with the team to address failures quickly

What You Bring To Forescout

U. S. citizenship required to support FedRAMP initiatives.

Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in software QA automation or related development/testing role. A track record of designing and executing tests for complex software systems is essential.

Testing Knowledge: Excellent knowledge of software testing methodologies (e.g. functional, regression, integration, performance testing) and QA processes. Ability to design test cases that effectively cover acceptance criteria and edge cases.

Programming Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, Java, or JavaScript) for writing test scripts and automation.

Test Automation Tools: Hands-on experience with modern test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright or similar for UI and API testing.

API Testing: Familiarity with testing RESTful APIs and use of API testing tools.

Performance Testing: Experience with performance testing and observability tools.

Cloud: Familiarity with Azure services and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

Containers: Knowledge of containerized environments (AKS/Kubernetes).

Compliance: Understanding of security frameworks (FedRAMP, SOC2, NIST 800-53).

Soft Skills: Self-driven, takes initiative, excellent communication skills, and a team player.

What Forescout Offers You

Competitive compensation and benefits – we cover 85% of employee and dependents’ benefits premiums (US only), 401K match, generous PTO policy, and much more Collaborative and innovative environment – make an impact on worldwide security while working on the hottest technology Leadership that supports and encourages professional growth and development Want a glimpse of Life @ Forescout? Check us out on Facebook and Instagram

Learn more at: www.forescout.com

Forescout Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value and embrace diversity, equality, inclusion, and collaboration at the core of our “One Team” philosophy. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Seniority level Not Applicable Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Computer Networking Products, Software Development, and Computer and Network Security