Director, QA
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Requirements
• Delinea is building a unified identity authorization platform that spans privileged access management, secrets management, authorization, and cloud security. The complexity of our product portfolio, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments across hundreds of target system types, demands a quality approach that scales beyond what traditional manual testing can deliver. We have established a clear vision for AI-driven quality and need a leader who can build and execute the roadmap to get us there. • This role reports to the Senior Director of Engineering and works closely with product • management, development leadership, and security teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. • 10+ years in QA with 5+ years leading teams of 20+ engineers. • Proven track record of fundamentally changing quality delivery (e.g., manual to automated/AI-augmented) rather than just maintaining teams. • Hands-on experience with AI/ML testing tools; ability to critically evaluate and implement emerging AI technology. • Strong knowledge of automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps/Agile methodologies. • Experience testing complex, security-sensitive products across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. • Ability to define and drive KPIs that create accountability and measurable outcomes. • Strong leadership skills to navigate teams through significant organizational shifts and build cross-functional buy-in. • BS in Computer Science or related field (Master’s preferred). • Experience in cybersecurity, identity security, or PAM. • Track record of deploying AI test generation, self-healing tests, or intelligent defect triage in production. • Experience testing AD, LDAP, SSH, RDP, and cloud provider APIs. • Familiarity with Selenium, Playwright, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and AI coding assistants. • Experience managing geographically distributed teams. • Knowledge of SOC 2, FIPS, FedRAMP, or GDPR.
Responsibilities
• Strategic Leadership: Lead the AI quality roadmap, progressively integrating AI across all QA functions. Evaluate and implement AI tools for test generation, self-healing suites, and intelligent defect triage. Define AI-specific KPIs to track the shift from manual to AI-driven quality practices. • Evolve the organization through leadership: Lead the transition of QA engineers from manual testers to quality architects who orchestrate AI-driven systems. Upskill the QA org through targeted training in prompt engineering, AI orchestration, and meta-QA practices. Drive innovation by fostering an experimental culture focused on piloting AI capabilities, measuring results, and rapid iteration. • Quality Strategy & Execution: Own and deliver measurable improvements in customer-reported defects and critical severity rates. Implement AI prioritization to focus testing on high-impact code changes and defect-prone areas. Transition from current manual burdens to near-zero through AI-generated automation and intelligent execution. Executive visibility with built-in real-time dashboards providing quality health insights for executive and operational teams. • Cross-functional impact: Embed quality practices early in the SDLC, shifting the focus from "test-and-find" to "prevent-and-detect." Align AI-generated acceptance criteria and test coverage with customer use cases and security needs. Partner with security teams to ensure AI-driven testing meets the high-security standards of PAM products.
Benefits
• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities. • We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative. • What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression. • At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success: • Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do • Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments • Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team • Ownership - We take initiative and follow through • Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment • Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes • We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie. • We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.