Automation Engineer jobs in Petah Tikva

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary As a Senior Staff Software Automation in our Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) engineering group, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the overall quality strategy, test architecture, and automation infrastructure. In this role, you will drive quality across both web-based Frontend interfaces and complex backend Infrastructure components powering our Idira EPM solutions. This role requires a balanced approach: you will architect enterprise-grade, scalable automation frameworks while actively participating in hands-on manual testing, exploratory validation, and release quality gates. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional software developers, DevOps engineers, and product managers to ensure our security offerings meet strict enterprise standards for performance, resilience, and user experience. Key Responsibilities Automation Engineering & Architecture • Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable automated test suites using Java and Python. • Lead the development of web automation solutions utilizing Playwright to test complex UI workflows and single-page frontend applications. • Build automated tests for REST APIs, backend microservices, and underlying cloud/on-premise infrastructure supporting the Idira EPM platform. • Integrate automated test pipelines into CI/CD workflows using Jenkins to support continuous testing and deployment. • Conduct proof-of-concept (POC) evaluations for new QA tools, framework enhancements, and testing technologies. Quality Assurance & Manual Testing Execution • Perform end-to-end manual, functional, exploratory, and regression testing on critical features across Frontend UIs and system Infrastructure. • Analyze system specifications, design test plans, and write detailed test cases to cover both standard functional paths and edge-case failure scenarios. • Investigate, isolate, and debug system defects, filing detailed bug reports with root-cause analysis to expedite resolution with development teams. Technical Leadership & Collaboration • Define quality metrics, target SLAs, and shift-left testing practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). • Work closely with Product Managers, Solution Architects, and Developers during sprint planning to establish clear acceptance criteria and definition of done (DoD). Qualifications • 4+ years of hands-on experience in Test (SDET) or QA Automation roles • Strong hands-on coding proficiency in Java/ Python for building test automation suites and utility tools. • Proven experience with Playwright or other web automation frameworks • Dual Testing Expertise: Solid background combining hands-on manual/exploratory testing (feature verification, release testing) with robust automation engineering. • Direct experience configuring and maintaining automated tests within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and working in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes). • Expertise in manual and automated testing of RESTful APIs and web services. • Scripting / Web Technologies: Familiarity with JavaScript and TypeScript. Our Commitment We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected]. Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Description About the role Commit builds software products for clients across embedded, IoT, SaaS, AI/ML, e-commerce, mobile, banking and web. We’re looking for an Automation QA Team Lead to own quality engineering for a product team and lead our shift to AI-first QA. You’ll set the test strategy, lead a team of QA engineers, and stay hands-on building automation — with AI woven into how tests are designed, authored, and maintained. This is a role for someone who pairs deep automation craft with modern AI tooling and can translate requirements into test documentation that both people and AI agents can execute. What you’ll do • Own the QA strategy and test architecture for full stack web applications, end to end. • Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers — reviews, standards, and delivery quality. • Stay hands-on: design and build automated E2E and regression suites with Playwright. • Drive AI-first QA practices — AI-assisted test authoring, self-healing suites, and AI-driven test generation from requirements. • Author Software Test Documents (STDs), test plans, and test cases structured for AI-driven execution. • Partner with developers and clients (including large enterprise and banking environments) to embed quality across the delivery lifecycle. Requirements Must-have qualifications • 7+ years in QA / test automation. • 3+ years as a QA team lead / manager (hands-on people leadership). • 1+ years AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor ant etc. • Expert-level automation with Playwright (a must). • Deep, hands-on fluency with modern browsers and their dev tools (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit). • Proven experience applying AI tools to QA beyond Playwright — for example: AI-assisted test authoring (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code), self-healing / autonomous E2E (mabl, Testim, or Katalon), and AI visual validation (Applitools). • Experience writing STDs and test plans suitable for AI-driven testing. • Fluent with modern dev tooling: Git, JIRA, Jenkins. • Professional-level English. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Nice to have • Additional automation frameworks and languages (e.g. Cypress, Selenium, TypeScript/Python). • Performance, API, or security testing experience. • Experience working in large organizations (e.g. banking / financial services).

Description About the Role We are looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer (AQA) to join a CommIT team delivering mission-critical systems for a leading financial institution. You will own test automation end-to-end across a layered banking architecture, building the frameworks, suites, and pipelines that keep quality high in a secure, highly regulated environment. This is a hands-on senior role for an engineer who treats test code with the same rigor as production code. You will define automation strategy, drive coverage across UI, API, and integration layers, and embed automated quality gates into the delivery process. We build with modern, AI-assisted workflows, so QA engineers who are fluent with tools like Cursor and Claude Code will feel at home. Architecture You Will Test You will design and maintain automated coverage across all tiers of a layered banking architecture, validating behavior and data flow as it moves through each layer: Client (React) → BFF (Next.js / JavaScript) → Middleware (.NET / C#) → Core Banking Key Responsibilities • Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites across UI, API, and service/integration layers. • Automate end-to-end UI tests for the React client and BFF, and API/contract tests for the .NET middleware and core integrations. • Build, maintain, and optimize automated test pipelines in CI/CD, and embed quality gates into the build and release process. • Define test strategy, test plans, and coverage; partner with developers on where unit, integration, and end-to-end tests belong. • Validate asynchronous and event-driven flows (e.g. RabbitMQ / Kafka) and verify data integrity across services and databases. • Triage failures, perform root-cause analysis, log and track defects, and report on quality metrics and release readiness. • Work within the bank's SDLC and governance — change management, environment promotion, and compliance gates. • Mentor team members on automation best practices and raise the overall quality bar. Requirements Must-Have Qualifications • 5+ years in QA with a strong focus on test automation. • Automation frameworks: hands-on with UI automation (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium) and API automation (e.g. Postman, REST Assured, or RestSharp). • Programming: proficiency writing test code in JavaScript / TypeScript and/or C#, aligned to the project stack. • Test types: solid experience across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing, including unit/integration tooling such as Jest (JS/TS) and NUnit (.NET). • Layered architecture: experience testing across a Client → BFF → Middleware → Core structure, with a clear grasp of each tier's responsibilities and boundaries. • Messaging / event-driven: experience validating asynchronous flows with messaging and event-streaming tools such as RabbitMQ and Kafka. • CI/CD: integrating and running automated tests in pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) with Git. • Data validation: comfortable with REST APIs and SQL for verifying data across services and databases. • Banking / regulated SDLC: experience working within a bank's (or comparable regulated enterprise's) software development lifecycle and quality governance. • Analytical & communication skills: strong problem-solving and clear written and spoken English in a client-facing delivery setting. Advantages • Banking / financial domain depth — prior QA experience with core banking, payments, or other financial systems. • AI-assisted development — hands-on experience with tools such as Cursor or Claude Code for authoring and maintaining tests (ideally 1+ year). • Performance & security testing — load/performance tools (e.g. k6, JMeter, Gatling) and basic security testing awareness. • BDD frameworks — experience with Cucumber, SpecFlow, or similar. • Cloud & modern infra — AWS, containers (Docker / Kubernetes). • Local context — familiarity with the Israeli banking landscape and Hebrew.