Lead QA Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Qualys is looking for a Lead QA Engineer to own quality for a platform that ingests assets, findings, and risk signals from dozens of third-party security vendors ore — and normalizes them into a single risk model used by thousands of enterprise customers. You will lead a team of QA and automation engineers, define the test strategy across UI, backend, and data pipelines, and drive our move toward AI-assisted, self-healing automation. This is a hands-on leadership role: you set direction, make release-quality calls, and still write and review framework code. Candidates who have built or meaningfully enhanced AI-based self-healing automation tools will stand out. --- Responsibilities QA Leadership & Strategy

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4–8 QA and automation engineers; run hiring, goal-setting, code reviews, and career development.
• Define and own the end-to-end test strategy for connector and platform releases — test planning, risk assessment, coverage targets, and entry/exit criteria.
• Act as the quality voice in sprint planning, design reviews, and release readiness; make clear go/no-go recommendations backed by data.
• Establish QA processes that scale: 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.