# QA Manager at Alkira

- Company: Alkira
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and GV.
- Company website: https://www.alkira.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://alkira.bamboohr.com/careers/257
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alkira-qa-manager/

## 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

Tags: Engineering - R&D