Senior QA Engineering Manager – Cloud Networking (Hybrid)

101 Extreme Networks, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Opportunity to shape quality eng for a

Job summary

Extreme Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, QA Engineering – Cloud Networking to lead quality strategy and execution for our cloud-managed networking platform.

You will build and scale a high-performing QA organization responsible for reliability, scalability, and security of our SaaS services, partnering with Development, Product Management, DevOps/SRE, and Customer Support. You will champion shift-left testing, drive test automation across APIs, UI, and cloud integrations, and deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of software quality engineering experience, including 4+ years in a QA leadership/people management role.
• Proven experience testing cloud-based/SaaS platforms; networking domain experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience building and scaling test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, PyTest, Robot Framework) and API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and microservices-based architectures.
• Solid grasp of performance, load, scalability, and security testing methodologies.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers and SDETs across manual, automation, performance, and security testing disciplines.
• Define and drive End to End Integration and System quality strategy, test methodology, and release quality gates.
• Own end-to-end test planning and execution for cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Champion shift-left quality culture by leveraging AI, embedding automated testing, and observability.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to assess release readiness and risk.
• Build and scale test automation frameworks for APIs, microservices, UI, and cloud integration testing.
• Establish and track quality metrics and report on health to senior leadership.
• Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement for escaped defects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and offshore QA partners to ensure quality practices.

Job description

Extreme Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, QA Engineering – Cloud Networking to lead quality strategy and execution for our cloud-managed networking platform.

You will build and scale a high-performing QA organization responsible for reliability, scalability, and security of our SaaS services, partnering with Development, Product Management, DevOps/SRE, and Customer Support. You will champion shift-left testing, drive test automation across APIs, UI, and cloud integrations, and deliver