Tenable

Manager, Software QA Engineering – Reliability

Tenable

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaMarylandUnited States

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $173,333 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Define and execute the long-term Quality Engineering vision, aligned with product and engineering goals.
  • Establish an automation-first culture, ensuring test automation is embedded into CI/CD and development workflows.
  • Drive strategic initiatives in performance testing, security validation, observability, and production readiness.
  • Own the automation roadmap across UI, API, performance, integration, and end-to-end testing.
  • Increase automation coverage and ensure automation is a gatekeeper for every release.
  • Strengthen CI/CD pipelines by integrating AI-driven test creation, self-healing automation, and continuous validation.
  • Identify and introduce the right automation tools (Playwright, Postman, JMeter, etc.).
  • Implement and enhance observability practices using logs, metrics, traces, and synthetic monitoring.
  • Partner with DevOps/SRE to improve error budgets, reliability scorecards, SLO/SLA tracking, and early incident detection.
  • Drive real-time production quality visibility through dashboards (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Elastic).
  • Lead RCA processes and implement systemic fixes to reduce repeat issues/incidents.
  • Build a monthly Quality Insights report for leadership with actionable recommendations.
  • Use metrics to optimize team performance, raise quality standards, and guide investment decisions.
  • Strengthen release governance with quality gates, smoke automation, performance checks, and risk-based testing.
  • Ensure predictable, stable, and low-defect releases across environments.
  • Drive continuous improvements in regression cycles, test planning, automation strategy, and environment readiness.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, UX, DevOps, and Support to embed quality early in the lifecycle.
  • Influence technical designs by advocating for testability, reliability, and observability.
  • Serve as the Quality representative in roadmap discussions, quarterly planning, and architecture reviews.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers, SDETs, automation architects, and analysts.
  • Build a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
  • Enable the team with training in automation, performance, observability tools, and AI-driven testing.

Requirements

  • 7 –10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, including 2–5 years leading teams.
  • Deep expertise in test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based SaaS delivery.
  • Strong understanding of observability tools (Datadog, Grafana).
  • Hands-on experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, K6, etc).
  • Strong command over quality metrics, reporting, and KPI-driven decision making.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits
  • medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance
  • 401(k) retirement savings with company match
  • an employee stock purchase plan
  • an employee referral program
  • flexible spending accounts
  • an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • education assistance
  • parental leave
  • paid time off (PTO)
  • company-paid holidays
  • health and wellness events
  • community programs

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
test automation frameworksCI/CD pipelinesperformance testingquality metricsKPI-driven decision makingobservability practicesrisk-based testingregression cyclestest planningautomation strategy
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder managementleadershipmentoringaccountabilityinnovationcontinuous learning