Director, QA

About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent centralized authorization empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence Delineas leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle across cloud and traditional infrastructure data SaaS applications and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities including workforce IT administrator developers and machines assign appropriate access levels detect irregularities and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks not months 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor and a 99.995% uptime Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on LinkedIn X and YouTube.

Join our passionate global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership outstanding engineers and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity innovation and a culture of respect and fairness. If youre ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security we want to hear from you.

Apply today to help us achieve our mission.

We are seeking a transformational Director of Quality Assurance to lead a fundamental shift in how quality is delivered across Delineas identity security platform. This is not a traditional QA leadership role. We are building toward a future where AI executes the vast majority of quality assurance work from acceptance criteria generation and test case creation to automated execution root cause analysis and defect triage while QA engineers evolve into quality architects who design orchestrate and govern AI-driven quality systems.

The ideal candidate has deep experience leading QA organizations through significant transformation understands the current and emerging landscape of AI-powered testing tools and can navigate the organizational change required to shift an engineering culture from manual testing to AI-native quality practices. You will own the strategy roadmap and execution for this transformation while maintaining the rigorous quality standards required for enterprise security software.

Delinea is building a unified identity authorization platform that spans privileged access management secrets management authorization and cloud security. The complexity of our product portfolio including on-premises cloud and hybrid deployments across hundreds of target system types demands a quality approach that scales beyond what traditional manual testing can deliver. We have established a clear vision for AI-driven quality and need a leader who can build and execute the roadmap to get us there.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Engineering and works closely with product
management development leadership and security teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

This is a hybrid role that is based in Mexico City Mexico and reports to the Director of Governance Risk and Compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Lead the AI quality roadmap progressively integrating AI across all QA functions. Evaluate and implement AI tools for test generation self-healing suites and intelligent defect triage. Define AI-specific KPIs to track the shift from manual to AI-driven quality practices.

• Evolve the organization through leadership: Lead the transition of QA engineers from manual testers to quality architects who orchestrate AI-driven systems. Upskill the QA org through targeted training in prompt engineering AI orchestration and meta-QA practices. Drive innovation by fostering an experimental culture focused on piloting AI capabilities measuring results and rapid iteration.

• Quality Strategy & Execution: Own and deliver measurable improvements in customer-reported defects and critical severity rates. Implement AI prioritization to focus testing on high-impact code changes and defect-prone areas. Transition from current manual burdens to near-zero through AI-generated automation and intelligent execution. Executive visibility with built-in real-time dashboards providing quality health insights for executive and operational teams.

• Cross-functional impact: Embed quality practices early in the SDLC shifting the focus from test-and-find to prevent-and-detect. Align AI-generated acceptance criteria and test coverage with customer use cases and security needs. Partner with security teams to ensure AI-driven testing meets the high-security standards of PAM products.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years in QA with 5 years leading teams of 20 engineers.

• Proven track record of fundamentally changing quality delivery (e.g. manual to automated/AI-augmented) rather than just maintaining teams.

• Hands-on experience with AI/ML testing tools; ability to critically evaluate and implement emerging AI technology.

• Strong knowledge of automation frameworks CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/Agile methodologies.

• Experience testing complex security-sensitive products across cloud on-prem and hybrid environments.

• Ability to define and drive KPIs that create accountability and measurable outcomes.

• Strong leadership skills to navigate teams through significant organizational shifts and build cross-functional buy-in.

• BS in Computer Science or related field (Masters preferred).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cybersecurity identity security or PAM.

• Track record of deploying AI test generation self-healing tests or intelligent defect triage in production.

• Experience testing AD LDAP SSH RDP and cloud provider APIs.

• Familiarity with Selenium Playwright Azure DevOps GitHub and AI coding assistants.

• Experience managing geographically distributed teams.

• Knowledge of SOC 2 FIPS FedRAMP or GDPR.

Why work at Delinea

• Were passionate problem-solvers helping the worlds largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart self-motivated and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen value different perspectives and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions and our process for hiring evaluating and promoting employees helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries a meaningful bonus program and excellent benefits including healthcare insurance as well as pension/retirement matching comprehensive life insurance an employee assistance program time off plans and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check verification of education and verification of employment per employment addition all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.

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