Staff QA Architect

About CyberArk

CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organisations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organisations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere.

Our team builds and provides CyberArk's Secure Workload Access solution. The team’s mission is to solve workload identity and authentication problems our customers face, and to secure workload communication while practicing the highest security standards and providing the best possible user experience.

We are looking for a Staff Quality Architect to be the technical authority on quality within our engineering organisation. This is a high-impact, hybrid role: you will be a strategic consultant during the design phase, a mentor to the team, and a hands-on engineer who builds the automation frameworks that power our development. You won’t just find bugs—you will design the systems that prevent them.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Product and Engineering to design comprehensive test strategies for complex features.
• Act as a mentor and coach to foster a "built-in quality" mindset, empowering developers to own their test plans and move quality upstream in the SDLC.
• Lead the definition of "Quality" for all new initiatives, ensuring test strategies are prioritised based on product needs, customer feedback, and risk areas.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks and shared libraries that enable feature teams to assert quality autonomously.
• Contribute to the development of debugging tools and infrastructure that make high-quality practices seamless and efficient for the entire engineering team.
• Conduct rigorous code reviews for both application and test code to ensure automation suites are as clean, maintainable, and performant as production code.
• Own the quality gates within the release process to ensure every release meets the highest standards of security and reliability.
• Work with developers to define and execute test plans for every feature under development, ensuring they align with the broader product strategy.
• Analyze test reports and system health to identify flakiness or gaps, providing targeted feedback where extra attention is needed.
• Own the reporting of internal and external quality metrics (including customer and field feedback), to help the team find the right balance between shipping new features and fixing existing issues.

Qualifications:

• Deep expertise in automated software testing methodologies and tools.
• You can write and understand code in TypeScript and/or Go.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing end-to-end automation frameworks (UI, API, and Integration) from scratch.
• You have experience influencing and coaching developers to take ownership of their own testing and quality practices.
• Holistic understanding of quality for security products, encompassing performance, resilience, and vulnerability assessment.
• Fluent in English, with the ability to explain complex technical quality trade-offs to both engineers and product stakeholders.

Additional Information:

We are proud to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, where every individual’s unique background, perspective, and contribution is celebrated. We believe that by embracing diversity, we drive innovation and create a stronger, more united team. Inclusion is at the heart of who we are and how we succeed. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete a comprehensive background check as per our internal policy. CyberArk is an equal opportunities employer. If you would like any special arrangements made for your interview, please inform the EMEA Talent Acquisition team upon your application so that we may take steps to accommodate your needs.