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Senior Security QA Engineer, Cloud

Qualys

Skills

Required

  • automation-first testing
  • API validation
  • continuous testing
  • security testing
  • AI-assisted

Preferred

  • CEH
  • CISA
  • CISM
  • AWS / Azure / GCP
  • Python
  • Java
  • Bash / Shell
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! As a Senior Security QA Engineer, you will be part of an engineering team responsible for designing, developing, and delivering automated testing solutions for cloud security.

Responsibilities

  • The role combines QA automation, cloud security, API testing, compliance testing, and infrastructure automation.
  • You will be responsible for building robust automated test frameworks to validate cloud platforms, SaaS applications, Kubernetes environments, APIs, security controls, compliance signatures, and AI-driven security capabilities.
  • You will work across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud while ensuring product functionality, security, reliability, scalability, and compliance.
  • Develop and maintain automated functional, API, regression, integration, security, and end-to-end test suites.
  • Build automation using Python, Java, Bash/Shell, REST APIs, and automation frameworks.
  • Validate cloud security configurations, compliance signatures, and security policies across multi-cloud environments.
  • Automate testing for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and IaC.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, or similar tools.
  • Leverage Generative AI and AI-assisted tools for test-case generation, code creation, test-data generation, log analysis, defect investigation, documentation, and productivity improvement.
  • Perform security and compliance testing against CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, DISA/STIG, CSA-CCM, and MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Collaborate with development, security, DevOps, and product teams to improve quality, automation coverage, and release efficiency.

Requirements

  • The role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on automation-first testing, API validation, continuous testing, security testing, and AI-assisted quality engineering.

Preferred

  • Security Certifications like CEH, CISA, CISM, CISSP, ISC2-CCSP Cloud platform-based certifications like AWS/Azure/GCP Certified Developer/Solution Architect Exposure to Security benchmarks like the CIS, SCCM, DISA, and STIG Basic understanding of security standards/mandates like CSA-CCM, NIST, PCI-DSS, MITRE, etc.

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