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 quality assurance leadership and implementation of quality vision
  • AI-First mindset with experience directing autonomous testing agents
  • Expertise in creating quality standards for agentic systems
  • Strong knowledge of SaaS testing dynamics, including multi-tenancy and load testing
  • Broad understanding of complex on-prem and cloud-based solutions
  • Experience in test design for both manual and automated systems with measurable outcomes
  • Skilled in architecting autonomous testing for APIs and asynchronous data processes
  • Proficiency with E2E testing frameworks like Cypress or Selenium, especially for MEAN stack applications

Responsibilities

  • Track team tasks and analyze testing needs to define QA activities
  • Plan and execute tests for comprehensive QA coverage
  • Design and manage autonomous test agent fleets for validation
  • Leverage AI insights for testing coverage and to identify gaps
  • Mentor QA staff and developers, promoting quality best practices
  • Develop AI-based frameworks to standardize testing criteria
  • Monitor and improve test performance in CI/CD pipelines
  • Contribute to automation coverage for web applications
  • Implement strategies for agentic automation ensuring complete testing coverage
  • Engage in SDLC inspections to enhance QA responsibilities
  • Analyze trends to refine testing frameworks against customer quality expectations

Benefits

  • Eligible for immigration sponsorship
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Supportive team environment fostering collaboration and innovation
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools for QA enhancements
  • Flexible work arrangements promoting work-life balance
  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs
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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