Head of QA

Short facts about us:

• We are a global remote-first team of 100+ people on 4 continents and in 10+ countries.
• We have been protecting our clients since 2014.
• The company has raised over $10M in investments.
• More than 200 customers around the world, including Fortune 500, Nasdaq, and high-growth startups choose Wallarm to protect their API and web applications.
• The company passed Y Combinator, the most prestigious incubator in Silicon Valley, from which Dropbox, Stripe, Docker, etc. came out.

Our product:

Wallarm API security solutions provide proven performance to support innovative companies serving millions of users and billions of API requests per month. Hundreds of Security and DevOps teams globally use Wallarm daily to:

1. Discover. See every asset across your entire attack surface—from cloud environments to every API endpoint with auto-discovery capabilities.
2. Protect. A single suite that goes beyond OWASP Top 10 for full coverage for API specific threats, account takeover, malicious bots, L7 DDoS, and more.
3. Respond. Streamline incident response with complete visibility, smart triggers, and active threat verification.
4. Test. Automate security testing of your APIs and web assets. Prioritize remediation for every asset, in every environment.

About this opportunity

As the Head of QA, you will be pivotal in shaping our product’s quality assurance strategy within the Engineering organization. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will drive QA excellence across two core Engineering groups — Node and Web. While we develop the full QA structure, this role will also serve as the Web QA lead, directly overseeing Web QA operations and strategy.

Our focus on automation will be central to your mission, as you work to establish scalable, efficient testing processes that support rapid development cycles without compromising quality. You’ll lead a talented and growing QA team, mentoring both QA leads and line members while implementing automation-driven QA practices. Your leadership will be essential in building out a comprehensive QA strategy that ensures high standards across all stages of product development.

Our current QA stack includes Playwright for web testing, Allure as our QA Ops tool, and Jira Confluence for task and knowledge management.

Responsibilities:

• Create and continuously refine the QA strategy, prioritizing automation across both Node and Web groups to streamline testing processes and improve coverage

• Initially take on the lead role for Web QA, overseeing day-to-day testing and process optimization until a dedicated Web QA lead is established

• Own end-to-end QA processes across the Engineering organization, optimizing and integrating testing frameworks with our CI/CD pipeline, emphasizing automation

• Build and lead a high-performing QA team. Mentor QA leads and team members, fostering growth, collaboration, and consistency across testing efforts

• Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to align QA practices with platform requirements and provide long-term quality solutions

• Leverage automation tools, particularly Playwright, alongside Allure and Jira Confluence to enhance test efficiency and reliability. Focus on continuous improvements, utilizing automation to drive faster release cycles and higher quality standards

• Develop a long-term QA roadmap aligned with the company’s technology roadmap. Establish best practices for automation, reporting on quality metrics, test coverage, and QA performance to senior leadership.

• Define and track OKRs and KPIs for QA success. Promote a culture of continuous improvement in QA methodologies, with a focus on leveraging automation for impactful results.

In this role you’ll need:

• 6+ years in QA, with a proven background in leading and managing QA teams, setting QA strategies, and building quality processes with a strong focus on automation

• Ability to scale and evolve QA processes within a growing organization, with a focus on driving automation and long-term QA development

• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing automation frameworks, with integration into CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Git is a plus

• Proficiency in Python/TypeScript/Go, with knowledge of GNU/Linux, HTTP, and networking technologies. Experience with Nginx or similar web servers is preferred

• Experience with complex, technology-driven products, ideally with exposure to cybersecurity or web application security

• Fluent English

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of cybersecurity or web application security

• Load testing experience

• Proven experience managing QA within infrastructure teams

• Experience managing people in cross-functional and distributed teams