Senior QA & Automation Lead for Cloud Networking

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

Job summary

Alkira, Inc. is seeking a QA Manager to lead the QA & Automation team, driving automation, test coverage, and release quality for a scalable networking platform. You will mentor engineers, shape QA strategy, and collaborate with Engineering and Product to ensure reliable releases.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires Python automation expertise, Terraform/CI experience, and strong networking knowledge across AWS/Azure/GCP. Hybrid onsite work in San Jose, CA.

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming for test automation and framework development.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and CI systems (Jenkins or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of public cloud networking constructs (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Networking fundamentals: BGP, IPsec/VPN, routing, firewall/NAT behavior.
• 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

Terraform

CI pipelines

Cloud networking

BGP

Bug triage

Distributed systems

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Alkira, Inc. is seeking a QA Manager to lead the QA & Automation team, driving automation, test coverage, and release quality for a scalable networking platform. You will mentor engineers, shape QA strategy, and collaborate with Engineering and Product to ensure reliable releases.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires Python automation expertise, Terraform/CI experience, and strong networking knowledge across AWS/Azure/GCP. Hybrid onsite work in San Jose, CA.