Senior Test Engineer, Security #14000A6 | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Senior Test Engineer, Security #14000A6 | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Senior Test Engineer, Security

Test Automation

Office: Irvine, California, United States

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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an experienced senior test engineer with a focus on security to join our world class test team. This position focuses on white box and automated testing for our games and support applications with a specialization in security and  vulnerability discovery. The ideal candidate is highly technical, experience with fuzz testing and exploit discovery, and has a proven commitment to quality.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop security testing processes for test engineering in support of software and game development teams.
• Define fuzz testing strategies for the department across a variety of technologies.
• Implement tools and automation that increase vulnerability discovery and provide thorough security risk analysis.
• Static code analysis of existing systems to identify potential attack vectors.
• Create proof of concept tools to demonstrate vulnerabilities to developers.
• Recruit, mentor, and lead a team of high-performance security test engineers.
• Represent test engineering in product planning and design meetings.
• Work with development teams to improve overall processes and push quality upstream.
• Determine metrics for testing and relay results to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, or related discipline
• A minimum of 5 years’ professional security testing or software engineering experience
• Able to read and analyze C++ and C# code
• Able to create sample exploits and tools to manipulate system memory and / or communicate using TCP/IP wire formats (including HTTP, AMQP and custom message formats)
• Knowledge of common exploitation techniques, security tools, and community trends
• Understands the concepts and techniques used in denial of service attack vectors and can identify them in via examination of application implementations
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• A working knowledge of agile development methodologies

Pluses

• Advanced software testing and / or ISTQB certification
• CEH or other security certifications
• Passion for video games and software quality

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter which should include:
• Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
• What games you are currently playing

**Only submittals with Cover Letters will be considered.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated companies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 

 

 

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