Architect Engineer SQA

Palo Alto Networks•Newton, MA

2d•$150,400 - $243,100•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
Excellent time management
Proactive by nature; internal drive for excellence and improvement
Team player
Ability to work alone

Responsibilities

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