Senior Manager, Test Engineering- Networking background is a must

<div class="content-intro"><p><span data-contrast="auto">For more than 30 years, <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc212.net%2Fc%2Flink%2F%3Ft%3D0%26l%3Den%26o%3D4263951-1%26h%3D4126915226%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fnam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%252F%253Furl%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.sonicwall.com%25252F%2526data%253D05%25257C01%25257Cbfitzgerald%252540SonicWall.com%25257Ca6c16b82afc749239f1c08dbda330d94%25257C84fe6f401cbc473083288018b2af88bc%25257C1%25257C0%25257C638343685070400977%25257CUnknown%25257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%25253D%25257C3000%25257C%25257C%25257C%2526sdata%253DQiWUyjNRdG%25252F5Rg2xvGXa1CYzr9V6BNnIgriz33Hk4vw%25253D%2526reserved%253D0%26a%3DSonicWall&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNikhilaR%40SonicWall.com%7Cfd3ae83762384be031d508dcdf3d2ddf%7C84fe6f401cbc473083288018b2af88bc%7C1%7C0%7C638630701067920926%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GhrhwS9jae1nk4KBGBzKfBcXS7BDBmkWDO87fbJLQxQ%3D&amp;reserved=0">SonicWall</a>&nbsp;has delivered a partner-first unified cybersecurity portfolio that helps SMBs, MSPs, and IT teams consolidate network security, endpoint security, security service edge (SSE), and threat response across hybrid environments. 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You will help shape how quality is built into the product lifecycle, from requirements and architecture reviews through continuous testing, release readiness, production validation, and post-release improvements.</p> <h2>Key Responsibilities</h2> <h3>Quality Strategy &amp; Release Ownership</h3> <ul> <li>Define and continuously improve QA and Quality Engineering strategy for cloud applications and cloud security products.</li> <li>Establish quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and release readiness standards.</li> <li>Drive risk-based testing and shift-left quality practices.</li> <li>Define test strategies for new features, platform changes, integrations, maintenance releases, and hotfixes.</li> <li>Own QA release readiness and provide quality recommendations for go/no-go decisions.</li> <li>Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to identify and mitigate quality risks.</li> </ul> <h3>Cloud, Security &amp; Networking Technical Leadership</h3> <ul> <li>Provide technical leadership across cloud applications, distributed services, and cloud security solutions.</li> <li>Define comprehensive testing strategies covering: <ul> <li>Functional and end-to-end customer workflows</li> <li>REST APIs and microservices</li> <li>Service-to-service communication</li> <li>Authentication and authorization</li> <li>Cloud networking and connectivity</li> <li>DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, proxies, and load balancing</li> <li>Security policies and controls</li> <li>Multi-tenant environments</li> <li>High availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery</li> <li>Upgrades, migrations, and backward compatibility</li> </ul> </li> <li>Review PRDs, technical specifications, and architecture proposals from quality, security, scalability, reliability, and networking perspectives.</li> <li>Drive security and negative testing to validate abuse cases, misconfigurations, authorization boundaries, and threat scenarios.</li> </ul> <h3>Automation, CI/CD &amp; Test Infrastructure</h3> <ul> <li>Define the automation vision across UI, API, integration, security, and end-to-end testing.</li> <li>Establish measurable automation coverage and effectiveness goals.</li> <li>Build scalable and maintainable automation frameworks in partnership with engineering and automation teams.</li> <li>Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.</li> <li>Drive improvements in automation stability and reduce flaky tests.</li> <li>Promote continuous testing and automated quality gates.</li> <li>Define the strategy for cloud-based test environments and test infrastructure.</li> <li>Partner with DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure teams on environment availability, scalability, and reliability.</li> <li>Explore AI and intelligent automation to improve test effectiveness and engineering productivity.</li> </ul> <h3>Performance, Scalability &amp; Reliability</h3> <ul> <li>Define strategies for performance, scalability, resiliency, and long-duration testing.</li> <li>Drive testing for high transaction volumes, concurrent users, API scalability, service interactions, resource utilization, failover, recovery, and scaling.</li> <li>Establish performance and reliability benchmarks for major releases.</li> <li>Partner with Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure teams to identify performance and scalability risks.</li> </ul> <h3>Execution Excellence &amp; Metrics</h3> <ul> <li>Own and track key quality metrics including: <ul> <li>Defect leakage and escape rate</li> <li>Regression effectiveness</li> <li>Automation coverage and ROI</li> <li>Automation flakiness</li> <li>Release quality and predictability</li> <li>Production incident trends</li> <li>Customer-impacting defects</li> </ul> </li> <li>Lead release readiness and quality reviews with senior stakeholders.</li> <li>Drive root cause analysis for production escapes and systemic quality gaps.</li> <li>Convert production and customer learnings into preventive quality improvements.</li> </ul> <h3>People Leadership &amp; Stakeholder Influence</h3> <ul> <li>Build, mentor, and retain a strong QA organization comprising leads and senior engineers.</li> <li>Lead and scale geographically distributed QA/Quality Engineering teams.</li> <li>Set clear expectations, career paths, technical growth plans, and performance goals.</li> <li>Develop technical and leadership capabilities within the QA organization.</li> <li>Influence Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and Security leadership to prioritize quality and customer impact.</li> <li>Represent QA in leadership forums, customer escalations, incident reviews, and cross-functional initiatives.</li> <li>Foster a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, automation, and continuous improvement.</li> </ul> <h2>Required Skills &amp; Experience</h2> <ul> <li>10–12+ years of experience in software QA/Quality Engineering, with 4+ years in QA leadership or people management.</li> <li>Strong experience testing cloud applications, SaaS products, distributed systems, or cloud security products.</li> <li>Good understanding of cloud, networking, and security fundamentals.</li> <li>Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, routing, load balancing, proxies, VPNs, and network security concepts.</li> <li>Understanding of cloud networking concepts such as VPC/VNet, subnets, security groups, firewalls, and private/public connectivity.</li> <li>Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, authentication, and authorization.</li> <li>Experience owning quality for complex software releases.</li> <li>Proven experience managing and developing QA teams.</li> <li>Strong automation and CI/CD experience.</li> <li>Experience with performance, scalability, resiliency, and reliability testing.</li> <li>Good understanding of security testing and secure software development practices.</li> <li>Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Good to Have</h2> <ul> <li>Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.</li> <li>Experience with SaaS and multi-tenant applications.</li> <li>Experience testing cloud security or cybersecurity products.</li> <li>Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.</li> <li>Exposure to security testing and vulnerability assessment.</li> <li>Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, FIPS, or similar compliance programs.</li> <li>Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production diagnostics.</li> <li>Experience handling customer escalations and production incident RCA.</li> <li>Experience using AI/ML for test automation, test generation, defect analysis, or quality engineering.</li> </ul> <h2>What Success Looks Like</h2> <ul> <li>Predictable, high-quality cloud application and cloud security releases.</li> <li>Reduced critical customer issues and production escapes.</li> <li>Measurable improvement in automation coverage and test effectiveness.</li> <li>Faster feedback cycles through shift-left testing and CI/CD integration.</li> <li>Improved application scalability, resilience, and production reliability.</li> <li>Strong security and quality practices embedded throughout the SDLC.</li> <li>Strong QA leadership and technical talent development.</li> <li>Improved engineering productivity through automation and modern Quality Engineering practices.</li> <li>Increased customer trust through reliable, secure, and high-quality cloud products.</li> </ul> <p>#LI-KB7</p> <p>#LI-Hybrid</p> <p>#QALeadership #QualityEngineering #CloudSecurity #TestAutomation #SaaS #DistributedSystems #CICD #AWS #Kubernetes #EngineeringLeadership</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fai-CopilotMessage__actions rmlvq19 ___7qar2c0 fcthzvy" data-tabster="{&quot;mover&quot;:{&quot;cyclic&quot;:false,&quot;direction&quot;:2,&quot;memorizeCurrent&quot;:false}}"> <div class="___1akvep3 f22iagw f1vx9l62 fdr99fa fly5x3f">&nbsp;</div> </div> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. 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