QA Lead

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN OUR QUALITY TEAM:

At Aqua, we know that quality assurance, automation, and data-driven decision-making solutions are highly important and have an extensive influence on the product. As an QA Lead, you will be part of a strategic and creative group that provides a quality assurance plan, strategy, and executes continuous progression and regression testing with data-driven decision-making solutions. At Aqua, you will learn and experience endless best technologies and skills. Additionally, you will be surrounded by amazing people and have the feeling of making an impact on a daily basis.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are on the hunt for a dedicated QA Lead to spearhead our Quality Assurance endeavors within the R&D department's Quality group.

The role will include leading and mentoring a team of SDET engineers, including those located in India, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture, and ensuring seamless communication, synchronization of efforts, and sharing of best practices across regions. Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to design, develop, and implement a wide array of tests. Oversee the defect management process, ensuring timely identification, tracking, and resolution of issues. Oversee and give the final go/no-go for product releases, ensuring that the product meets the required quality. Ensure that testing environments are set up accurately and maintained, simulating real-world scenarios for accurate testing. Ensure comprehensive documentation of test plans, test cases, defect reports, and other relevant metrics for future reference. Analyze and review current testing processes, making recommendations and driving initiatives for continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in leading QA as a technical leader or as a team leader/manager with hands-on responsibility - a must.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing processes, and the software development lifecycle - a must.
• Hands-on experience with scripting/programming skills (i.e. coding in a programming or scripting language, e.g. Python, Bash, Go, JavaScript, Groovy, etc.)
• Proficient in test planning, test design, and test implementation across various types of testing, including functional testing and non-functional testing - a must.
• Experience in server-side and UI testing.
• Experience with DevOps tools like GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS managed service.
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, namely GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure, and Oracle Cloud - Advantage
• Familiarity with VMware Tanzu TAS (Tanzu Application Service) - an advantage.
• Proficiency in managing and working with various platforms, including Openshift, Windows, Azure, EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), GCP (Google Cloud Platform), TAS (Tanzu Application Service), Fargate, and more - an advantage.
• Extensive experience working in a multi-cloud environment - an advantage.
• Cloud and/or agent security experience - an advantage.
• Experience working with international teams - an advantage.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Innovative with excellent problem-solving skills.

Aqua is a unicorn in the exciting and fast-growing cloud-native security space, leading the digital transformation of the world’s largest organizations using containers, Kubernetes, and serverless.

Every Aquarian makes an impact. Our highly collaborative culture sparks bonds amongst Aquarians empowering us to boldly drive change. We thrive by constantly being challenged to deliver the best, most innovative technological solutions to our customers.

Join our team of cloud-native experts for a world of global opportunities and continuous career development!