Palo Alto Networks

Architect Engineer SQA

Palo Alto Networks$150K — $243K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in defining a quality vision and leading teams in its implementation
  • Experience in directing autonomous agent fleets for testing
  • Expertise in architecting quality guardrails for agentic systems
  • Knowledge of SaaS-specific testing like multi-tenancy and load validation in cloud
  • Familiarity with both complex on-premises and cloud-based products
  • Proficient in designing and executing tests for complex systems, tracking code coverage
  • End-to-end testing experience for modern web applications within the MEAN stack

Responsibilities

  • Track team tasks and define QA activities and ownership
  • Plan and execute tests as part of QA efforts
  • Design and manage autonomous test agent fleets for QA validation
  • Utilize AI-powered insights to analyze testing coverage and close gaps
  • Mentor QA staff and developers, instilling a quality mindset
  • Develop AI frameworks for standardized quality benchmarks
  • Optimize test performance in CI/CD pipelines for SaaS
  • Implement automation strategies for full-stack web applications

Benefits

  • Immigration sponsorship eligibility
  • Potential for restricted stock units and bonuses
  • Focus on professional development and mentoring opportunities
  • Work in a dynamic, technology-driven environment
  • Collaborative team culture with a focus on quality and improvement
Full Job Description
Job Summary

As a senior QA professional on the product team, the QA Architect is committed to the quality of the release content and coordinates our ongoing push towards better quality and higher confidence in what we release. This person will operate in a very rich environment of technologically and logically complex systems and products and will report to the Director R&D.

Duties include:

  • Actively track the teams' tasks, analyze the testing needs and define QA activities and ownership
  • Plan, define and execute tests as part of the teams' QA-related activities
  • Design and orchestrate autonomous test agent fleets to execute comprehensive QA validation.
  • Analyze testing coverage using AI-powered insights, implementing agentic loops to close gaps and ensure high-confidence releases.
  • Mentor developers and QA staff to raise quality mindset and skills, advise, influence and review test plans and reinforce all relevant best practices into the day-to-day life
  • Develop and maintain custom AI skills and frameworks to standardize quality benchmarks (e.g., automated API contract testing, AI-driven code review orchestration).
  • Monitor and optimize test performance in CI/CD pipelines for web-based SaaS deployments
  • Contribute to the teams' automation coverage - both in terms of code coverage and more nebulous concepts (such as stability, maintenance, quality etc.)
  • Define and implement agentic automation strategies for full-stack web applications, ensuring end-to-end coverage, moving beyond manual script maintenance to directing agent-based testing workflows.
  • Be familiar with every step of the SDLC and the QA responsibility in each step, and take an active role in process inspection and improvement
  • Analyze field trends and data and continually improve our testing frameworks and efforts to remain consistent with our customers' expectations for a quality product


Qualifications

  • This is a senior-level role. Successful candidates will have significant previous experience, 7+ years defining a quality vision and leading a teams towards implementing that vision
  • Demonstrable 'AI-First' mindset: Experience in directing autonomous agent fleets (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) rather than manual coding as the primary delivery mechanism.
  • Expertise in architecting quality guardrails for agentic systems.
  • Experience in optimizing SaaS-specific testing, such as multi-tenancy validation, scalability, and load testing in a cloud environment
  • Wide perspective of complex on-premises and cloud-based product solutions (business, technical, architecture)
  • Experience in test design and execution for complex systems (manual and automated), including measuring code coverage
  • Expertise in architecting autonomous testing for RESTful APIs and asynchronous data flows.
  • Experience with end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks for modern web applications (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or Protractor)
  • Proficiency in testing full-stack web applications, specifically within the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js) ecosystem
  • Soft skills:
    • Excellent time management
    • Proactive by nature; internal drive for excellence and improvement
    • Team player
    • Ability to work alone


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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$150,400.00 - $243,100.00/yr

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference.
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks
Size
11,870 employees
Market Cap
$42.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$368.2 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
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