Senior QA Engineer – AI-Driven Security for Kubernetes

Tigera; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Tigera is seeking a QA Engineer to own quality for Lynx end to end. You will be embedded with a small, high-autonomy engineering team, building test strategy, automation, and release confidence for a product that runs at the intersection of Kubernetes, runtime telemetry, and AI.

This hands-on role requires writing automated tests, building harnesses, and validating detections as models evolve, ensuring releases are reliable across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software QA or test engineering, with a strong bias toward automation over manual testing.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for test automation (Python preferred).
• Hands-on experience testing distributed systems, APIs, and backend services.
• Working knowledge of containers and technology like Docker
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into them.
• Strong debugging instincts and the ability to isolate root cause across a multi-service system
• Excellent written and verbal communication - clear bug reports, clear test plans, clear recommendations.
• Must be comfortable with, and an advocate for, AI tooling in your day-to-day workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy for Lynx across unit, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional testing.
• Design and build automated test suites and CI pipelines that give the team fast, trustworthy signal on every change.
• Test distributed, Kubernetes-native systems: multi-node clusters, telemetry pipelines, and services under realistic load and failure conditions.
• Develop approaches for validating ML-driven behaviour - detections, risk scores, and behavioural baselines - including regression testing, ground-truth datasets, and evaluation of false-positive/false-negative rates.
• Build tooling, fixtures, and synthetic data that let the team reproduce agent behaviour and edge cases reliably.
• Investigate, isolate, and clearly report defects, driving them to resolution with engineering.
• Serve as the quality voice in design and release decisions, and help define what "ready to ship" means for a security product.

Skills

QA automation

Python

Distributed systems testing

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Bug investigation

Technical communication

AI tooling

Tools

CI tools

Test harness

Job description

Tigera is seeking a QA Engineer to own quality for Lynx end to end. You will be embedded with a small, high-autonomy engineering team, building test strategy, automation, and release confidence for a product that runs at the intersection of Kubernetes, runtime telemetry, and AI.

This hands-on role requires writing automated tests, building harnesses, and validating detections as models evolve, ensuring releases are reliable across platforms.