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Qualys is looking for a Lead QA Engineer to own quality for products in the Cybersecurity and Compliance domain used by thousands of enterprise customers.
You will act as a senior individual contributor and technical mentor for QA and automation engineers. You will define the test strategy across UI, backend, and data pipelines, and drive the move toward AI-assisted, self-healing automation. This is a hands-on technical role: you set quality direction, influence release decisions, and actively write and review framework code. Candidates who have built or meaningfully enhanced AI-based self-healing automation tools will stand out.
Responsibilities
QA Mentorship & Strategy
Test Automation (Hands-On)
- Architect and evolve automation frameworks across React/TypeScript front ends, Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and Kafka-based pipelines.
- Own API and contract testing (REST Assured, Pact, Postman/Newman) covering OAuth2, JWT, token, and Basic auth flows, pagination, throttling, and vendor error handling.
- Own CI/CD quality gates in Jenkins or GitHub Actions with fast PR-level feedback and tiered regression runs.
AI-Driven & Self-Healing Automation
- Lead the design and rollout of self-healing automation: automatic locator recovery, DOM-similarity scoring, element fingerprinting, and confidence-based fallback that keeps suites green through UI changes.
- Apply LLMs across the QA lifecycle — generating test cases from requirements and API specs, converting manual tests to automated scripts, summarizing failures, and suggesting root causes from logs.
- Build intelligent flaky-test detection, failure classification, and auto-quarantine to separate real regressions from environmental noise.
- Set guardrails for AI use in QA — validating AI-generated tests, measuring healing accuracy, and preventing false passes.
Qualifications
Experience
- 8-10+ years in QA / test engineering, with at least 2 years leading or mentoring a QA team.
- Proven track record of building automation frameworks from scratch and owning release quality for a SaaS product.
- Hands-on experience building, extending, or productionizing an AI-based or self-healing automation solution, with the ability to explain how you measured its impact.
Skills
Automation & Testing
- Robot, Playwright and/or Selenium 4; TestNG or JUnit 5; Cypress, Jest, or Vitest
- API automation: REST Assured, Postman/Newman, schema validation
- Contract testing (Pact), service virtualization, and mocking (WireMock or similar)
- Performance testing with JMeter, k6, or Gatling
- Visual regression and accessibility testing
Programming & Backend
- Python, Java(17+) and JavaScript/TypeScript
- SQL and data validation on Oracle or similar
- Familiarity with microservices, Spring Boot, and Kafka (or other event streaming systems)
AI in QA
- Self-healing locator strategies and intelligent element matching
- LLM integration: prompt design, structured outputs, and embedding model calls into test tooling
- AI-assisted test generation, failure clustering, and log/trace summarization
- Familiarity with RAG or vector search over test artifacts is a plus
- Working knowledge of AI testing platforms (Healenium, Applitools, mabl, Testim)
DevOps & Tooling
- CI/CD with Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals
- Test management (Jira/Xray, TestRail, or Zephyr)
- Observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK) for test and pipeline diagnostics
Technical Mentorship
Preferred
- Background in cybersecurity — vulnerability management, Policy Compliance
- Experience testing multi-tenant SaaS at large data volumes.
- Open-source contributions to testing or automation projects.
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