Senior Manager, Test Engineering- Networking background is a must

Overview

Own end-to-end quality for SonicOS, the operating system powering SonicWall's next-generation firewall products, and lead a QA organization that shapes quality across the product lifecycle.

What you'll do

• Define and continuously improve the QA strategy for SonicOS across major releases, patches, and hotfixes
• Establish quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and release readiness standards
• Drive risk-based testing and shift-left practices to catch issues early
• Own go/no-go decisions for releases from a quality standpoint
• Provide technical leadership across firewall features such as stateful firewall, NAT, VPN (IPSec/SSL), routing, HA, and security services like IPS, DPI-SSL, Gateway AV, App Control, and Web Filtering
• Review PRDs, design documents, and architecture proposals with a quality and security mindset
• Define test strategies covering functional correctness, complex E2E customer workflows, performance, scale and stress, HA failover, upgrades/downgrades, config migrations, and long-run stability
• Champion security and negative testing to validate abuse cases and threat scenarios
• Define the long-term automation vision (UI, API, CLI, E2E) and measurable coverage goals
• Partner with automation leads to build scalable frameworks integrated into CI/CD
• Drive stability and reliability of automated test suites, reducing flakiness and improving signal
• Own strategy for testbeds spanning hardware appliances, virtual firewalls, and cloud deployments
• Work with infrastructure teams on availability, capacity planning, and reliability of test environments
• Own and track key quality metrics: defect leakage, escape rate, regression effectiveness, automation ROI, and flakiness trends
• Lead regular release readiness and quality reviews with senior stakeholders
• Drive deep root cause analysis for production escapes and systemic quality gaps
• Convert learnings from field issues into preventive quality improvements
• Build, mentor, and retain a leadership bench of QA managers, leads, and senior engineers
• Set clear expectations, career paths, and technical growth plans for the QA organization
• Influence engineering leadership and PMs to prioritize quality, reliability, and customer impact
• Represent QA in leadership forums, customer escalations, and cross-functional reviews

What you'll need

• 10+ years of total technical experience, including at least 2+ years in a management or leadership role
• Strong background in testing firewall / network security products or similar system software
• Deep understanding of networking and security fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, NAT, VPN, HA, IPS/DPI concepts, authentication mechanisms)
• Experience owning quality for complex, large-scale system software releases
• Proven leadership experience managing and scaling QA teams across geographies
• Strong exposure to automation strategy and CI/CD-driven quality practices
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Prior experience with SonicOS or comparable firewall OS platforms
• Exposure to security compliance programs (FIPS, Common Criteria, SOC2)
• Experience testing in hybrid environments (hardware, virtual, and cloud)
• Experience handling customer escalations and field issue RCA

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
• Remote work listed