Lead QA Engineer

Qualys is looking for a Lead QA Engineer to own quality for products in the Cybersecurity and Compliance domain used by thousands of enterprise customers. You will act as a senior individual contributor and technical mentor for QA and automation engineers. You will define the test strategy across UI, backend, and data pipelines, and drive the move toward AI-assisted, self-healing automation. This is a hands-on technical role: you set quality direction, influence release decisions, and actively write and review framework code. Candidates who have built or meaningfully enhanced AI-based self-healing automation tools will stand out.

QA Mentorship & Strategy

• Mentor and guide QA and automation engineers through technical coaching, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Define and own the end-to-end test strategy for legacy components by improving automation coverage, while ensuring all new components are fully automated from the start.
• Act as the quality voice in sprint planning, design reviews, and release readiness; make data-backed go/no-go recommendations.
• Establish scalable QA processes: defect triage, severity/priority standards, regression tiers, test case management, and root-cause analysis for escaped defects.
• Track and report quality metrics (defect leakage, automation coverage, flaky-test rate, mean time to detect, release cycle time) to engineering and product leadership.
• Partner closely with Development, Product, Support, and Sustenance teams to shift quality left and reduce customer-reported issues.

Test Automation (Hands-On)

• Architect and evolve automation frameworks across React/TypeScript front ends, Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and Kafka-based pipelines.
• Own API and contract testing (REST Assured, Pact, Postman/Newman) covering OAuth2, JWT, token, and Basic auth flows, pagination, throttling, and vendor error handling.
• Own CI/CD quality gates in Jenkins or GitHub Actions with fast PR-level feedback and tiered regression runs.

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