Director, QA

Delinea • Redwood City, CA

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About The Position

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, Delinea’s 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 Delinea.com, 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 you're 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 Delinea’s 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.

Requirements

• 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 (Master’s preferred).

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director