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QA Manager

Alkira · San Jose, California · On-site

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About Alkira

Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and GV.

About the role

The QA & Automation team is the quality gate for every product release. It owns our in-house automated test framework — a Python, Terraform, and Jenkins-based system that runs large-scale regression suites continuously across all major public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).

What they're looking for

  • Lead and develop the QA & Automation team , providing technical direction, mentorship, prioritization, and career development
  • Own the overall QA strategy for Alkira's networking platform, including functional, integration, regression, negative, performance, and scale testing
  • Design and automate test coverage for new features and releases across all supported clouds
  • Maintain and extend our automated test framework and its CI infrastructure, keep regression suites healthy and fast
  • Build and run scaling/performance test campaigns that validate platform limits ahead of customer growth
  • Develop Terraform-based deployment automation used for large customer onboardings
More about this role

About the Team

The QA & Automation team is the quality gate for every product release. It owns our in-house automated test framework — a Python, Terraform, and Jenkins-based system that runs large-scale regression suites continuously across all major public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI). Beyond release validation, the team builds scaling and performance tests that prove the platform keeps up with customer and traffic growth, and develops Terraform-driven deployment automation that makes large customer onboardings fast and repeatable. The team works across multiple geographies, so you'll collaborate with engineers in different time zones.

We are looking for a QA Manager to lead our QA & Automation team and help ensure the quality, scalability, and reliability of every product release.

The Role

As QA Manager , you will lead the team responsible for this critical quality infrastructure. You will set the QA strategy, drive automation and test coverage, establish quality standards, and partner closely with Engineering and Product to ensure releases meet a high bar for reliability.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You should be comfortable diving into Python automation, CI...

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