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Nucleus Security

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🔒 Cybersecurity

📋 Compliance

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $13M Series B on 2024-02

Cybersecurity • Compliance • Enterprise

Nucleus Security is a comprehensive platform designed to scale and automate vulnerability and exposure management programs. It offers an extensive ecosystem with over 150 integrations, allowing for robust vulnerability aggregation, risk prioritization, and remediation automation. The platform provides valuable solutions for both public sector entities, including federal and state governments, as well as private sectors by centralizing security and simplifying compliance processes. Nucleus Security is recognized as a leader in continuous vulnerability management, offering the capability to unify asset, vulnerability, and threat data to effectively mitigate critical exposures. With features like plan of action and milestones automation, the platform is acclaimed for enhancing risk-based vulnerability management and application security, making it a top choice among enterprise users for its scalability, automation, and ability to achieve compliance with standards like FedRAMP and SOC2.

📋 Description

• Ensure the quality and reliability of assigned products across UI, APIs, and data • Define test approach and risk coverage with the QA Manager, leveraging AI tools to improve coverage and efficiency • Build, extend, and improve scalable Selenium and Playwright automation frameworks • Review test code, share testing practices, and raise design concerns early • Plan and execute functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end testing • Design and execute manual and automated test cases covering functionality, performance, reliability, positive, negative, and edge cases • Assess risk and prioritize testing effort against delivery timelines • Map test cases to business requirements and functional designs • Investigate complex or intermittent failures to determine root cause • Document and report defects, verify fixes, and collaborate with development teams on resolution • Write and execute complex SQL queries to validate data integrity, transformations, and business logic • Verify data through ingestion, normalization, and processing workflows • Validate UI/API-triggered database interactions, migrations, schema changes, and backfills • Build and maintain reusable test data sets and database setup/teardown routines • Implement and review Java automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Playwright with the Page Object Model • Contribute to automation framework architecture, reusable components, reporting, and test data management • Incorporate database validation into automated suites • Improve automation reliability, execution time, and maintenance cost • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support DevOps workflow optimization, including parallel execution • Support performance and scale testing • Use AI tools for test case generation, test data creation, defect analysis, browser interaction, exploratory testing, and script generation • Partner with the QA Manager, developers, and product managers to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria • Support and mentor less experienced QA engineers • Participate in design reviews and technical discussions • Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, tools, and standards

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software quality assurance • At least 5 years in test automation • Strong programming skills in Java • Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver and Playwright • Experience with design patterns such as the Page Object Model • Experience contributing to the design or significant refactoring of an automation framework • Solid API testing experience • Strong SQL skills and hands-on relational database validation • Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling and version control • Experience running automation reliably within pipelines • Strong analytical and debugging skills with a track record of driving complex issues to root cause • Hands-on experience using AI tools for test case generation, test data creation, and defect analysis • Familiarity with Model Context Protocol tooling, such as Playwright MCP • Experience with AI-assisted coding tools and ability to validate AI output • Preferred: experience in cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or security-focused products • Preferred: familiarity with security concepts including vulnerabilities, risk scoring, APIs, and data protection practices • Preferred: experience with MCP servers or agent-based testing workflows • Preferred: experience testing ETL/data pipelines or large-scale/NoSQL data stores • Preferred: experience with performance/load testing, cloud environments, or containerized test infrastructure • Ability to learn and teach new tools, technologies, and frameworks

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote • Flexible PTO • 401k company contribution • 100% company-paid healthcare options • 100% company-paid dental • 100% company-paid vision • 100% company-paid life insurance • 100% company-paid short-term disability insurance • Work-life balance • Work with a high-performing team that values creativity, autonomy, and innovation • Collaborate on meaningful products that improve the security posture of major organizations