Director, Quality Engineering

Netskope is a leading cloud security company focused on redefining Cloud, Network, and Data Security. The Director of Quality Engineering will lead the Central Quality organization in the US, responsible for tracking product quality and driving improvements in testing and quality reporting across engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of release and quality processes to improve them
• Define and develop automated quality reporting workflows that work across a variety of product development teams
• Improve release management processes
• Drive the implementation of next-generation test automation and smoke testing frameworks and test reporting systems
• Provide day-to-day management and mentorship to 2 or more engineering managers/senior managers
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and growth, adopting latest new tools, technologies and development processes like spec-driven development
• Oversee the long term testing / pre-production environment strategy, ensuring high availability and stability for testing environments used by the entire company
• Work closely with multiple QE and development teams, PMO, engineering management and product management

Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in test automation and tooling
• 10+ years of management experience, with at least 3+ years experience managing other managers (Director level experience)
• Proven experience running Engineering Productivity, Internal Developer Platform, or Tooling development teams. You understand the unique challenges of treating developers and quality engineers as your primary customer
• Strong background in building scalable test automation frameworks (Python, Go, or Java)
• Strong background in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and how test infrastructure integrates with them
• Experience overseeing OPS/SRE functions, specifically regarding the management of complex, distributed test environments
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work with a globally distributed team across different time zones (US, EU, India, Taiwan)
• BSCS or equivalent required
• MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred