Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Job Description
About Us:
Qualys is the leading provider of information security and compliance cloud solutions. We are currently seeking a highly skilled Principal QA Engineer to join our team to lead and deliver roadmap features of backend systems.
Job Summary:
As a Principal QA Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the highest quality standards for our products. You will lead quality assurance efforts, mentor QA team members, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive quality initiatives. Your deep expertise in QA methodologies, automation, and leadership will be instrumental in shaping our quality strategies and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead QA Strategy: Define and implement the QA strategy, ensuring alignment with overall product goals. Establish and maintain best practices for testing, automation, and quality control.
Test Planning and Execution: Develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts. Ensure thorough testing of software products across multiple platforms.
Automation Leadership: Lead the design and development of automated test frameworks and scripts. Drive the adoption of automation across the QA team to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor and guide QA engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Provide technical leadership and support to the QA team, ensuring high standards of quality and performance.
Collaboration: Work closely with development, product management, and operations teams to understand product requirements and ensure quality at all stages of the development lifecycle.
Defect Management: Oversee the defect management process, ensuring timely identification, tracking, and resolution of defects. Analyze defect trends and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for process improvement within the QA team and across the organization. Implement changes to enhance productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction.
Compliance and Standards: Ensure that all QA activities comply with industry standards, company policies, and regulatory requirements. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
Reporting and Documentation: Provide regular reports on QA metrics, test coverage, and product quality. Ensure thorough documentation of QA processes, test cases, and results.
Risk Management: Identify potential risks in the product development process and work proactively to mitigate them. Ensure that all risks are thoroughly documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience:
10+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with at least 3 years in a leadership or principal-level role.
Extensive experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g.Java,Python, Selenium, restAssured, JUnit, TestNG).
Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
Skills:
Proficient in programming languages such as Java, Python, or C#.
Hands on experience with RESTful API, API Integration Testing automation, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines
Strong knowledge of Linux/UNIX and Database concepts.
Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Kibana.
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to details.
Excellent communication and leadership skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Preferred:
Experience in performance testing and security testing.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Why Join Us:
Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge technology and be part of a team that values innovation.
Growth Opportunities: We offer continuous learning and development opportunities to help you grow in your career.
Impactful Work: Play a key role in delivering high-quality products that has wide impact.
Collaborative Culture: Join a supportive and collaborative team that values diverse perspectives.
Top Skills
What We Do
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
