Vice President, Quality Engineering

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply provided they have the indefinite right to work in the job location.

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners Cohesity makes it easy to secure protect manage and get value from data across the data center edge and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities including immutable backup snapshots AI-based threat detection monitoring for malicious behavior and rapid recovery at scale.

Weve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation Product Strength and Simplicity in Design.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

As a Quality Engineering Leader you will define and lead the global quality vision across all flagship product lines. Your mission is to ensure our software meets the highest standards of reliability security and performance.

You will drive quality engineering excellence throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) champion DevSecOps practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement and customer-centric innovation.

Leading the Central QA team and partnering with QA leads across product teams youll ensure consistent predictable and on-time delivery of enterprise-ready products. Youll define and implement quality criteria from day one of development through release ensuring every phase upholds uncompromising quality standards.

This role will also lead initiatives to enhance release management visibility from daily testing status to executive-level readiness reporting. You will embed a shift-left mindset across Engineering enforce rigorous root-cause analysis and drive systemic corrective actions that strengthen quality across the organization.

How youll spend your time here:

Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute the enterprise-wide software quality strategy.

• Align quality goals with business priorities product roadmaps and customer needs.

• Leverage AI-driven testing analytics and automation to optimize coverage and accelerate delivery.

• Partner closely with Product Engineering Security and Customer Success to deliver trusted resilient solutions.

• Model and uphold the companys core values while developing future QA leaders.

Quality Engineering & Automation

• Lead teams focused on test automation performance security and release validation.

• Drive adoption of AI/ML-based testing frameworks and predictive quality analytics.

• Optimize CI/CD pipelines for speed reliability and compliance.

• Define and measure quality KPIs to ensure consistent improvement across all releases.

Customer Experience & Reliability

• Monitor product telemetry defect trends and user feedback to proactively improve quality.

• Lead cross-functional incident reviews and postmortems to ensure rapid data-driven learning.

• Champion a shift-left approach to testing embedding quality and security early in development.

Team Development

• Build mentor and scale a high-performing global QA organization.

• Foster a culture of accountability innovation and technical excellence.

• Develop the next generation of quality engineering talent to support global expansion.

Wed love to talk to you if you have many of the following:

• 15 years in software quality engineering or product development including 5 years in senior leadership.

• Proven success in enterprise Cloud SaaS cybersecurity or Data Protection domains is a Must.

• Deep understanding of AI/ML systems cloud-native architectures and secure SDLC.

• Expertise in test automation observability and quality metrics.

• Exceptional leadership communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors including a candidates skills qualifications and experience location and salary expectations and therefore a starting salary at the low end high end or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation commission (if in a sales function) and/or equity grants. Additionally full-time employees are eligible to participate in ourcomprehensive benefits framework including health and wellness benefits vacation paid holidays and refresh days 401(k) retirement plan life and disability insurance coverages and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

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Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation national origin or nationality ancestry age disability gender identity or expression marital status veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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In-Office Expectations

Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply provided they have the right to work in the job location.