Cloud QA & Automation Lead

Alkira Australia; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkira is seeking a QA Manager to lead the in-house automation framework and scale testing across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will own QA strategy, drive test coverage, and partner with Engineering and Product to ensure reliable releases.

This hands-on leadership role requires Python automation, Terraform, and CI experience, plus mentoring a distributed team and participating in on-call rotations for release validation.

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming for test automation and framework development.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and CI systems (Jenkins or equivalent).
• Knowledge of public cloud networking constructs (VPC/VNet, routing, peering) in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Networking fundamentals: BGP, IPsec/VPN, routing, firewall/NAT behavior.
• Systematic debugging and triage skills: isolating product bugs from test/infrastructure issues, and writing crisp bug reports.
• Experience designing test plans for complex distributed systems, including negative and scale testing.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Gate releases: triage regression failures, drive bugs to resolution with development teams, and sign off on release quality.
• Coordinate execution with distributed team members, and participate in an on-call rotation supporting release validation and test-infrastructure availability.

Skills

Python programming

CI systems

Cloud networking

Networking fundamentals

Test plan design

Debugging & triage

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

Alkira is seeking a QA Manager to lead the in-house automation framework and scale testing across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will own QA strategy, drive test coverage, and partner with Engineering and Product to ensure reliable releases.

This hands-on leadership role requires Python automation, Terraform, and CI experience, plus mentoring a distributed team and participating in on-call rotations for release validation.