Senior QA Engineering Manager, Cloud Networking (Remote)

Extreme Networks, Inc; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

401(k) with match

Flexible remote/hybrid

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Extreme Networks is seeking a Senior Manager of QA Engineering to lead quality strategy for its Cloud Networking platform. You will build a high-performing team ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across SaaS services, partnering with Development, Product, and DevOps.

You will own end-to-end testing across cloud-native applications, drive shift-left quality, and guide release readiness while mentoring engineers in a global, inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 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 strongly 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, with a track record of building high-performing, globally distributed teams.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers and SDETs across manual, automation, performance, and security testing disciplines.
• Define and drive the End to End Integration and System quality strategy, test methodology, and release quality gates for the Cloud Networking product portfolio.
• Own end-to-end test planning and execution for cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS applications, including functional, regression, scalability, resiliency, and upgrade testing.
• Champion a shift-left quality culture by leveraging AI, embedding automated testing, CI/CD quality gates, and observability into the development lifecycle.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to assess release readiness, manage risk, and make data-driven go/no-go decisions.
• Build and scale test automation frameworks for APIs, microservices, UI, and network device/cloud integration testing.
• Establish and track quality metrics and report on quality health to senior leadership.
• Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement for escaped defects and customer-impacting issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and globally distributed teams, including outsourced/offshore QA partners, to ensure consistent quality practices.
• Manage QA budget, tooling investments, and vendor relationships.
• Stay current with industry best practices in cloud networking, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, and network access control to inform test strategy.

Skills

QA leadership

Cloud SaaS testing

Automation frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Networking domain

Cloud platforms

Performance testing

Agile/Scrum

API testing

Selenium/Cypress

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Postman

REST Assured

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Extreme Networks is seeking a Senior Manager of QA Engineering to lead quality strategy for its Cloud Networking platform. You will build a high-performing team ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across SaaS services, partnering with Development, Product, and DevOps.

You will own end-to-end testing across cloud-native applications, drive shift-left quality, and guide release readiness while mentoring engineers in a global, inclusive environment.