
Manager, Software QA Engineering – Reliability
Tenable
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Maryland • United States
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Salary
💰 $130,000 - $173,333 per year
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