Senior QA Architect: AI-Driven Autonomous Testing for SaaS

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Newton (MA); On-site; USD 150,400 - 243,100; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a senior QA Architect to lead quality across our product suite. You will define QA strategy, orchestrate autonomous testing workflows, and mentor teams to raise the bar on software quality in a complex SaaS environment.

You will work with AI-driven testing approaches, CI/CD pipelines, and modern E2E frameworks to ensure robust, scalable releases. This role emphasizes leadership, deep automation, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• This is a senior-level role. Successful candidates will have significant previous experience, 7+ years defining a quality vision and leading a teams towards implementing that vision
• Experience in directing autonomous agent fleets (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) rather than manual coding as the primary delivery mechanism.
• Expertise in architecting quality guardrails for agentic systems.
• Experience in optimizing SaaS-specific testing, such as multi-tenancy validation, scalability, and load testing in a cloud environment
• Wide perspective of complex on-premises and cloud-based product solutions (business, technical, architecture)
• Experience in test design and execution for complex systems (manual and automated), including measuring code coverage
• Expertise in architecting autonomous testing for RESTful APIs and asynchronous data flows.
• Experience with end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks for modern web applications (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or Protractor)
• Proficiency in testing full-stack web applications, specifically within the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js) ecosystem
• Soft skills: Excellent time management; Proactive by nature; Team player; Ability to work alone

Responsibilities

• Actively track the teams’ tasks, analyze the testing needs and define QA activities and ownership
• Plan, define and execute tests as part of the teams’ QA-related activities
• Design and orchestrate autonomous test agent fleets to execute comprehensive QA validation.
• Analyze testing coverage using AI-powered insights, implementing agentic loops to close gaps and ensure high-confidence releases.
• Mentor developers and QA staff to raise quality mindset and skills, advise, influence and review test plans and reinforce all relevant best practices into the day-to-day life
• Develop and maintain custom AI skills and frameworks to standardize quality benchmarks (e.g., automated API contract testing, AI-driven code review orchestration).
• Monitor and optimize test performance in CI/CD pipelines for web-based SaaS deployments
• Contribute to the teams’ automation coverage – both in terms of code coverage and more nebulous concepts (such as stability, maintenance, quality etc.)
• Define and implement agentic automation strategies for full-stack web applications, ensuring end-to-end coverage, moving beyond manual script maintenance to directing agent-based testing workflows.
• Be familiar with every step of the SDLC and the QA responsibility in each step, and take an active role in process inspection and improvement
• Analyze field trends and data and continually improve our testing frameworks and efforts to remain consistent with our customers’ expectations for a quality product

Skills

AI-First mindset

Agent fleets

Quality guardrails

SaaS testing

Multi-tenant testing

Cloud architectures

Test design & execution

RESTful APIs testing

End-to-end testing

MEAN stack testing

Time management

Proactive

Team player

Independent work

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Selenium

Protractor

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a senior QA Architect to lead quality across our product suite. You will define QA strategy, orchestrate autonomous testing workflows, and mentor teams to raise the bar on software quality in a complex SaaS environment.

You will work with AI-driven testing approaches, CI/CD pipelines, and modern E2E frameworks to ensure robust, scalable releases. This role emphasizes leadership, deep automation, and cross-team collaboration.