About the role
Cato Networks is the converged network and security cloud for the AI era.
As AI reshapes cybersecurity, enterprises face a dual challenge: unlocking AI’s potential while defending against AI-driven attacks. Cato addresses both through a unified, cloud-native platform, providing the visibility and context to prioritize risks and stop threats in real time across users, applications, data, and AI agents.
Join us as we scale: take on ambitious technological challenges and shape the next generation of enterprise security at a company trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide.
We’re looking for a Senior Automation Engineer to join our Automation team. As a member of this team, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated tests and infrastructure using our Java-based framework. Our Automated tests cover various aspects of the security product, including complex networking topology, traffic, security rules, Users authentication scenarios.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automated tests for complex, multi-layered systems using our Java-based framework
- Drive initiatives to enhance automation infrastructure and tools to support seamless development and testing workflows.
- Define, build, and maintain automation infrastructure, frameworks, and reusable libraries, to improve test execution reliability, reduce flakiness, shorten feedback loops, and increase confidence in automation results.
- Evaluate and integrate AI-driven solutions into the automation workflow, improving productivity, reliability, and insight generation
- Leverage AI-based tools and techniques to enhance test automation, including test generation, failure analysis, and optimization of test coverage and execution
- Enable QA automation engineers and developers with reusable components, templates, tools, dashboards, CI/CD integrations, and best practices.
- Translate automation data into actionable insights for automation engineers, developers, product teams.
- Identify gaps and develop tools and solutions to improve automation efficiency, stability, and scalability
- Collaborate with development, product, and cross-team automation groups to ensure high-quality delivery and unified standards
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in test automation for multi-layered complex systems
- Strong coding skills with OOP/OOD principles (Java, C#)
- Experience with load and performance testing (Jmeter, K6, Gatling)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong understanding of network protocols (L3–L7)
- Strong understanding of automation architecture, CI/CD integration, and scalable execution infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
- Experience designing, building and maintaining automation frameworks and test environments
- Practical experience using AI-based tools to improve software development or test automation workflows (e.g. test generation, code assistance, failure analysis, or test optimization)
- Familiarity with identity providers (LDAP, AD, Okta, Azure AD)
- Demonstre a strong ownership mindset and exceptional communication skills to mentor teams toward continues engineering excellence.