Software Engineer in Test (QA automation) at GitGuardian · Paris

About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New-York City, Boston.

Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes, Docker's co-founder. American and European top-tier VC firms have also invested in GitGuardian who raised its series C early 2026.

GitGuardian helps enterprises close credential-based breach paths. It finds secrets wherever they live, prioritizes remediation based on rich context, and prevents new exposure across code, systems, and AI. The GitGuardian platform is already used by more than 600K developers worldwide and by 50 of the fortune 500!

About your team and your mission

GitGuardian is key in securing the code of many companies, so our platform must meet high stability standards and be automatically end-to-end tested!

Into the Engineering department (+50 engineers), you will be joining a team of 3 senior engineers in specialized in development efficiency and tests. As a Software Engineer in Test, you will ensure that our test coverage increases over time, by helping teams to develop their automated tests.

You will be responsible for imparting best practices in test automation, quality assurance methodologies, and continuous integration processes. Your expertise will help shape a culture of quality and innovation across the engineering teams, ensuring robust and reliable software delivery.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Working closely with product teams and development teams to continuously test the latest product features
• Supporting development teams as co-owners of the tests related to their features and drive their adoption
• Implementing and maintaining automated tests (end-to-end tests, performance tests…)
• Owning the integration of the tests in the continuous deployment pipeline
• Implementing custom tools
• Documenting detailed and precise bug reports

About you

If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!

We are looking for a highly technical engineer (woman or man), able to offer innovative solutions to be efficient in tests, whether it’s about maintenance, speed, coverage, or stability.

Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:

• Fluency in English
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance Engineering
• Proficiency using a modern end-to-end test framework such as Playwright or Cypress
• Proven ability to write and help developers to define bugs
• Significant experience implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration jobs (with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Circle CI…)
• Experience on a web-based SaaS product deployed in Continuous Deployment.
• Strong communication skills, to drive best practices in the organization and articulate Testing framework to other developers

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:

• Experienced in implementing different types of tests such as performance tests
• Being comfortable in programming languages such as Typescript or Python
• Being familiar with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
• Fluency in French

The interview process

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.

We will ask for your gender identity on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

1. Interview with Charles, your future manager

To know more about yourself and your achievements, discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

2. Technical interview with the team

Live exercises, to evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.

3. Interview with the Senior Engineering Manager (N+2)

To go further in the assessment of the cultural fit with the team.

4.1 Final interview with an Executive Manager (CTO or CEO)

To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.

4.2 Reference check

You can start thinking about two contacts (as recent as possible) that we could call at the end of the process, who can attest of your previous or current professional experiences.

Benefits

• 💰 Package that includes stock-options
• 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile)
• 👟 Sponsored Wellpass (gymlib)
• 🏥 Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare / Generali)
• 💻 Up to €300 to improve your home office set-up
• 🌴 Yearly holiday allowance
• 🎡 Team building: monthly budget dedicated to each employee that you can spend as you wish, with colleagues (latest examples to date: Michelin star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, kitesurfing week-end, ...)

And also...

• 🏡 Remote policy: hybrid (3 days/week at the Paris office)
• 🤖 Full, company-wide access to cutting-edge AI tools to stay ahead of the curve
• 📈 Opportunities for career development in the long term
• 🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you

More about GitGuardian!

Stack

Backend: Python (Django) Go, Rust Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest DB: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch (+ Kibana), MongoDB Observability: Elastic Stack, Sentry, Grafana LGTM, OTEL Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio) Cloud providers: AWS and OVH Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis Secret manager: Hashicorp Vault

Products

• Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!
• Want to go even further? Check out our public roadmap!
• Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.
• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 app on the GitHub marketplace 🔥

Clients

• GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.
• More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.
• Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.

People

• The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!
• The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.
• We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.
• You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.