Focus on reliability, performance, automation, and continuous improvement
Responsibilities
Own and drive the end-to-end QA strategy, establishing quality gates, standards, processes, and cross-team accountability
Lead and scale two QA teams spanning functional and reliability engineering, including managers, a principal engineer, and individual contributors
Evolve the QA organization and operating model to support growth
Partner with senior and principal engineering leadership to strengthen reliability, performance, resilience, and high-load testing practices
Guide automation strategy and quality processes
Establish comprehensive quality coverage across business users, developers, and administrators/operators in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments
Develop actionable quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting
Collaborate with engineering, product, UX, documentation, and field teams
Stay connected to hands-on QA execution
Drive continuous improvement and cultural change across QA practices
Requirements
Proven experience leading QA or quality engineering functions within engineering organizations of approximately 100–500 employees
Strong experience defining and implementing end-to-end QA strategies, quality gates, testing standards, and data-informed quality decision-making