Manager, Software Engineering Quality (Cortex Cloud)

Your Career
At Palo Alto Networks were not just building products were redefining whats possible in cybersecurity. As a Manager Software Engineering - Quality youll play a critical role in our mission to secure the worlds digital transformation. Your work will directly impact the quality and reliability of the solutions that protect global enterprises every day. If youre a quality-driven leader with a passion for building scalable test strategies and want to shape the future of cloud security with a high-impact team wed love to connect with you.

Why Cortex Cloud

• Market Leader Be part of the fastest-growing cloud security platform trusted by leading organizations around the globe and help ensure its quality scales with its success.

• Innovative Culture Collaborate with top minds in cybersecurity and automation where your ideas for smarter faster and more secure testing will be valued and implemented.

• Massive Impact As a Manager Software Engineering - Quality your leadership will directly impact the security and reliability of our products ensuring that our solutions are thoroughly tested stable and production-ready to protect the worlds most critical digital assets.

• Rapid Growth Join a high-velocity team where career growth and impact go hand in hand. As we scale youll have opportunities to take ownership lead initiatives and grow your technical expertise.

Your Impact

As the Manager Software Engineering Quality you will:

• Support coach and develop your team members empowering them to deliver high-impact results and grow in their careers.

• Drive release readiness through comprehensive regression integration and system testing working closely with product management DevOps and engineering teams.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to align quality initiatives with product objectives and ensure seamless integration of Quality efforts across the development lifecycle.

• Lead testing projects from requirement analysis through test strategy design and implementation partnering with test leads and engineers to ensure thorough coverage and timely delivery.

• Oversee end-to-end release management ensuring stable timely and high-quality software releases through effective cross-functional coordination.

• Maintain a broad technical perspective to proactively identify potential risks or inefficiencies and work with senior engineers and leadership to drive resolution.

• Champion an automation-first culture by implementing robust Python-based test frameworks (e.g. PyTest) and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Docker and cloud platforms.

• Own and evolve the test strategy test plans and automation coverage for large-scale distributed systems across AWS Azure and GCP.

• Foster a culture of quality continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the SDET organization.

• Continuously seek opportunities to make a meaningful impact across the broader engineering organization.

Qualifications :

Your Experience

• 10 years of industry experience in the software testing domain with at least 4 years in Quality or Engineering management roles.

• Deep hands-on expertise with Python-based automation frameworks (e.g. PyTest).

• Ability to balance delivering high-quality features and releases with addressing test automation gaps technical debt and investments in testing infrastructure and tooling.

• Proven track record in cross-functional collaboration early risk identification and stakeholder communication.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science related Engineering discipline or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in managing SDETs for cloud-native security platforms 

• Past contributions in customer support engagement live debugging and escalations.

Additional Information :

The Team

Why Cortex Cloud

• Market Leader Be part of the fastest-growing cloud security platform trusted by leading organizations around the globe and help ensure its quality scales with its success.
• Innovative Culture Collaborate with top minds in cybersecurity and automation where your ideas for smarter faster and more secure testing will be valued and implemented.
• Massive Impact Your work as an SDET will directly contribute to protecting the worlds most critical digital assets by ensuring our solutions are secure stable and production-ready.
• Rapid Growth Join a high-velocity team where career growth and impact go hand in hand. As we scale youll have opportunities to take ownership lead initiatives and grow your technical expertise.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $165000 - $267500. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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