QA Engineering Manager (Platform Automation) Who is Forcepoint? Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you! Position: QA Engineering Manager (Platform Automation) Location: Cork, Ireland (hybrid) Overview: Forcepoint is transforming cybersecurity by focusing on what matters most: understanding people’s intent as they interact with critical data and intellectual property wherever it resides. Our uncompromising systems enable companies to empower employees with unobstructed access to confidential data while protecting intellectual property and simplifying compliance. You will be responsible for recruiting top talent, establishing a positive, innovative and productive culture and delivering high quality software to our customers. In this role you will manage a group of software QA engineers working in an agile environment. This is a hands-on role requiring a strong technical background and the ability to enhance customer quality and keep the product lifecycle on track. This position is both people management and technical contribution to the Endpoint product within Forcepoint. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced manager to work with a strong team in developing the latest features for a market leading company in data protection. Essential Functions: Provide hands-on leadership in the QA team, ensuring high-quality testing standards. Drive the design and implementation of automation frameworks, both individually and as the technical lead of a team of QA engineers. Work with managers across the organization to tackle highly complex and high valued customer facing issues, ensuring quality assurance is at the forefront. Provide day-to-day guidance and support to ensure that your team is successful and meets its quality goals. Work closely with technical support to quickly qualify and reproduce escalated customer issues, ensuring quality of the product is maintained. Take an active role in the career development of your team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning in automation methodologies and design patterns. Perform other duties and projects as assigned, with a focus on continuous improvement in automation processes. Preferred Technical Skills: 10+ years of experience with Python on MacOS or Windows. Expert Python coder with experience in developing and maintaining test automation frameworks such as Robot Framework and Pytest. Experience with integration testing between different components of a software system, focusing on Microservices based architecture. Knowledge of API testing tools and techniques, familiarity with contract-based testing. Expert with CI tools like Jenkins, experience in writing and maintaining Test automation pipelines. Excellent debugging and RCA skills. Experience with troubleshooting and debugging of automation code. Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Deep understanding of automation design patterns and their implementation. Experience with source control systems like Git. Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with developers, escalation group, and other team members. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and automation processes. Experience in managing/coordinating testing activities. Experience in measuring and reporting quality-related metrics to identify trends and proactively solve problems. ISTQB certifications are a plus but not mandatory. Soft Skills: Strong communication (written and oral) and teamwork behaviour within a diverse team environment. Building good working relationships with other teams around the world. Ability to create an innovative, collaborative and supportive culture. Strong focus on reports’ talent development and career growth. Self-motivated to research new skills and technologies (whether or not directly related to product). Commitment to the broader range of product development goals (teamwork at scale). Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Extensive experience managing a QA engineering team. Strong troubleshooting skills, good coding and source management practices. Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team. The policy of Forcepoint is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity. Forcepoint is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to recruiting@forcepoint.com. Applicants must have the right to work in the location to which you have applied. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Senior Software QA Manager Location: Cork, Ireland (hybrid role) Overview: Forcepoint is expanding its world-class Endpoint organisation in Cork, Ireland. The Cork team is part of a global team that develops Forcepoint’s Windows and Mac Endpoint products to scale to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of Forcepoint users. You will be responsible for recruiting top talent, establishing a positive, innovative, and productive culture, and delivering high-quality software to our customers. In this role, you will manage a group of software QA engineers working in an agile environment. This is a hands-on role requiring a strong technical background and the ability to enhance customer quality and keep the product lifecycle on track. Essential Functions: Provide hands-on leadership in the QA team, ensuring high-quality testing standards. Drive the design and implementation of automation frameworks. Tackle highly complex and high-value customer-facing issues. Provide day-to-day guidance and support to ensure that your team meets its quality goals. Work closely with technical support to quickly qualify and reproduce escalated customer issues. Take an active role in the career development of your team members. Perform other duties and projects as assigned, focusing on continuous improvement in automation processes. Preferred Technical Skills: 10+ years of experience with Python on MacOS or Windows. Expert Python coder with experience in developing and maintaining test automation frameworks such as Robot Framework and Pytest. Expert with CI tools like Jenkins. Excellent debugging and RCA skills. Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Deep understanding of automation design patterns and their implementation. Experience with integration testing between different components of a software system. Knowledge of API testing tools and techniques. Experience with source control systems like Git. Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with developers, escalation group, and other team members. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and automation processes. Experience in managing/coordinating testing activities. Experience in measuring and reporting quality-related metrics to identify trends and proactively solve problems. ISTQB certifications are a plus but not mandatory. Soft Skills: 5+ years of experience managing technical teams. Experience leading and guiding managers. Proven in the art of making good impactful decisions. Ability to articulate clear guidance and vision. Strong communication (written and oral) and teamwork behavior within a diverse team environment. Ability to build good working relationships with other teams around the world. Ability to create an innovative, collaborative, and supportive culture. Strong focus on reports’ talent development and career growth. Self-motivated to research new skills and technologies. Commitment to the broader range of product development goals. Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Extensive experience managing a QA engineering team. Strong troubleshooting skills, good coding, and source management practices. Experience managing multiple teams. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you! Forcepoint has a fantastic opportunity to join our team in Ireland. This is a Sales Engineer position where you will be working extremely closely with sales and includes building relationships with partners and ensuring they can position and implement our solutions. You will be aligned with a sales rep and carry a joint quota. From a technology perspective we are ideally looking for someone with a Cloud, network security and DLP (Data Loss Prevention) security background, with experience of positioning security products with large customers. Like the industry and our customers, we are transitioning from network and data security products to a “Data-First” SASE architecture. Not all companies are moving at the same speed, and many continue with our good NGFW, DLP, Cloud Security and other products. You should feel at home in both worlds. What you will be doing: Lead discussions with customers to drive understanding and documentation of the customer’s environment and needs, specifically their network/cloud security, DLP/Intellectual property protection needs and recommend appropriate products/services that meet these needs. Deliver product, technology and/or customized solution presentations to technical and business decision makers which may include system demonstrations, white-boarding and technical Q&A sessions to the client. Provide pre-sales technical support, security engineering and technical guidance for the development and implementation of Forcepoint cybersecurity technologies for customers. Work with customers, strategic partners, resellers and Forcepoint team members to architect, design, build, and deploy cyber security solutions for customers and partners in support of pilot and proof of concept demonstrations. Attend industry conferences, trade shows and sales events and participate in related activities. Prepare, write, and present trade studies, cost benefit analyses, white papers, reports, and briefings as required. Work with account managers and proposal team to develop technical content and diagrams for RFI/RFP responses. Collaborate with partners and professional services to design project activities to have them aligned with customer expectations. Assist with maintaining state of the art demonstration and lab capabilities and other duties and projects as assigned. What you can bring: Previous demonstrated experience within cyber security. Pre-sales experience working directly with cyber security and/or network products in a team environment. Experience with Cloud security & network security. Experience with Data Loss Prevention projects, approach, and logics. Ideally have experience working with enterprise accounts. Confident communicator, able to proactively engage with customers. Ability to effectively communicate with a broad range of audiences; from deeply technical to high executive C-level decision makers. Must be able to collaboratively coordinate across traditional engineering disciplines, management, and customers. Knowledge of networking topology, TCP/IP protocol, proxies’ infrastructures, Network architectures, and components (firewalls, routers, etc.). Strong understanding of customers and prospects requirements, security design and system architectures. Experience with cyber security engineering projects and programs. #J-18808-Ljbffr
MAC Senior Software Engineer Who is Forcepoint? Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you! Position: Senior Software Development Engineer JR466623 Location: Cork, Ireland (hybrid) Overview: Have you developed software solutions in an Endpoint architecture within the cybersecurity sphere? We are seeking an experienced developer to work on an industry changing product and deliver on our key milestone components. Experience in designing and developing complex code on one of the following platforms: MAC OS X, Windows or Linux is required. Deep operating system knowledge is critical. Forcepoint is transforming cybersecurity by focusing on what matters most: understanding people’s intent as they interact with critical data and intellectual property wherever it resides. Our uncompromising systems enable companies to empower employees with unobstructed access to confidential data while protecting intellectual property and simplifying compliance. The Endpoint team is an essential part of a global team that designs and develops Forcepoint’s Windows, Linux and MAC capabilities to scale to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of Forcepoint users. We are looking for a highly motivated, ambitious, independent hard worker who wants to be part of a winning team. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced developer to work with a strong team within the cybersecurity industry. Responsibilities: Design and implement cross platform endpoint security solutions in response to emerging threats Develop, enhance, and maintain Forcepoint endpoint security products Assist and troubleshoot product related issues escalated by the product support team Perform additional duties and projects as required to achieve organizational goals Act as a leader and mentor for engineering staff and work with team management to implement career development through engineering assignments. Work closely with a globally distributed group of stakeholders and remote development teams to ensure that all endpoint consumers get high quality components on schedule. Skills and Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 8+ years of experience with C/C++ on OS X, Linux and/or Windows Good knowledge of OS internals and device driver fundamentals Experience of leading development projects and the mentoring of junior developers Strong troubleshooting skills, good coding and source management practices Excellent debugging skills. Reverse engineering techniques, debugging of kernel space code and system extensions. Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals such as file systems, network protocol stacks, process management, interrupt handling, and memory management. Understanding or experience with certificate management, code signing, secure communications, encryption, trusted boot, or related topics. Understanding of backend application models and RESTful APIs. Soft Skills: Self-motivated to research new skills and technologies Commitment to the broader range of product development goals Desire to develop talent and mentor junior engineers. Experience working in a cross functional organization with distributed teams. Strong communication (written and oral) and teamwork ethic within a diverse team environment. Preferred Skills: Knowledge of endpoint, network and data security highly desired Experience developing and debugging kernel level code, system extensions and/or device drivers Prior experience developing security products Deep understanding of secure coding techniques, integrity measurement, and tamper detection. Good understanding of test frameworks. Direct experience with SCRUM and Agile methods. Exposure to virtualization and containerization. Knowledge of design patterns. Solid understanding of build systems and continuous integration. Commitment to Diversity: Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team. Forcepoint is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to recruiting@forcepoint.com. Applicants must have the right to work in the location to which you have applied. #J-18808-Ljbffr
