alkira
QA Manager
San Jose, California
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$9,744 more — $159,744 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $159,744 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- The QA & Automation team is the quality gate for every product release.
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role.
- You should be comfortable diving into Python automation, CI pipelines, cloud environments, networking issues, and test failures while also mentoring engineers and managing priorities across a distributed team.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the QA & Automation team, providing technical direction, mentorship, prioritization, and career development.
- Own the overall QA strategy for Alkira's networking platform, including functional, integration, regression, negative, performance, and scale testing.
- Maintain and extend our automated test framework and its CI infrastructure
- Build and run scaling/performance test campaigns that validate platform limits ahead of customer growth.
- Develop Terraform-based deployment automation used for large customer onboardings.
- Gate releases: triage regression failures, drive bugs to resolution with development teams, and sign off on release quality.
- Networking fundamentals: BGP, IPsec/VPN, routing, firewall/NAT behavior - enough to design meaningful network test
- Life at Alkira is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI‑focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
- Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win.
- With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and CI systems (Jenkins or equivalent).
- Working knowledge of public cloud networking constructs (VPC/VNet, routing, peering) in at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Nice to have
- On-call This role includes a mandatory on-call rotation covering release-validation windows and the availability of the test and automation infrastructure the release pipeline depends on.
- At Alkira, you'll help shape the next chapter of networking: cloud-like consumption, private-network performance, and total control across the enterprise.
Skills
- isolating product bugs from test/infrastructure issues, and writing crisp, actionable bug reports.
- Experience designing test plans for complex distributed systems, including negative and scale testing.
- Nice to have
- Performance/scale testing experience (traffic generation, load tooling).
- Experience testing networking or security products.
- Location and Sponsorship
Compensation
- The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000 USD plus benefits.
- Your actual base salary and level will be determined on a case by case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge, skills, experience, education and location.
- We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
Benefits
- We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
Company info
- It owns our in-house automated test framework - a Python, Terraform, and Jenkins-based system that runs large-scale regression suites continuously across all major public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
- Beyond release validation, the team builds scaling and performance tests that prove the platform keeps up with customer and traffic growth, and develops Terraform-driven deployment automation that makes large customer onboardings fast and repeatable.
- The team works across multiple geographies, so you'll collaborate with engineers in different time zones.
- We are looking for a QA Manager to lead our QA & Automation team and help ensure the quality, scalability, and reliability of every product release.
- As QA Manager, you will lead the team responsible for this critical quality infrastructure.
- You will set the QA strategy, drive automation and test coverage, establish quality standards, and partner closely with Engineering and Product to ensure releases meet a high bar for reliability.
- What we're looking for
Visa & Work Authorization
- Location and Sponsorship
This listing is sourced directly from alkira's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.