Senior QA Architect - AI-Driven Testing & Automation

Palo Alto Networks; Newton (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks in Newton, MA is seeking a Senior QA Architect to elevate the quality of our web-scale SaaS products. You will lead QA strategy across CI/CD, define automated testing across full-stack MEAN ecosystems, and mentor teams toward a quality-first mindset.

The role emphasizes AI-driven testing, autonomous agent fleets, and end-to-end coverage for RESTful APIs. You’ll collaborate with R&D leadership to deliver high-confidence releases in a fast-paced security software environment.

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

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

Autonomous agent fleets

Quality guardrails design

SaaS testing optimization

Test design & execution

RESTful APIs testing

E2E testing frameworks

MEAN stack testing

CI/CD performance tuning

Mentoring & leadership

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Selenium

Protractor

MongoDB

Express.js

Angular

Node.js

Job description

Palo Alto Networks in Newton, MA is seeking a Senior QA Architect to elevate the quality of our web-scale SaaS products. You will lead QA strategy across CI/CD, define automated testing across full-stack MEAN ecosystems, and mentor teams toward a quality-first mindset.

The role emphasizes AI-driven testing, autonomous agent fleets, and end-to-end coverage for RESTful APIs. You’ll collaborate with R&D leadership to deliver high-confidence releases in a fast-paced security software environment.