QA Automation Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the QA automation strategy for multiple product lines, aligned with organizational quality and release goals.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of automation engineers; establish best practices, coding standards, and high-quality test development processes.
• Advocate for automation-first quality culture across engineering teams, ensuring automation is integrated early in design and development.
• Define the automation roadmap, architect next-generation test frameworks, and elevate overall product quality and release velocity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in QA automation, software development, or test engineering, with significant hands-on automation work.
• Strong scripting/programming background (Python required; familiarity with C, Shell, or similar languages a plus).
• Proficiency testing complex distributed systems, storage technologies (NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel), or infrastructure products.
• Experience developing automation frameworks, preferably Linux-based and containerized.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git/GitLab, virtualization/hypervisors, and cloud/VM environments.
• Willing and able to come into our Centennial, CO office during core business hours (10am - 4pm local) Tuesday - Thursday.

Preferred Experience

• With performance/IO tools (e.g., FIO, ElBencho, SPEC, IO500).
• Familiarity with Agile/iterative development methodologies.
• Exposure to backup applications (Veeam, NetBackup, Cohesity), cluster orchestration, or scale-out systems.
• Hands-on with Jira, Confluence, or equivalent tools.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership, team-building, and mentoring ability.
• Excellent problem solving and root-cause analysis skills.
• Clear communicator able to influence stakeholders across engineering functions.
• Able to thrive in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities.

Benefits

• Quantum provides a diverse portfolio of health plans for medical and prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental medical insurance options.
• We also support our team members’ efforts to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle through reimbursement and educational programs.
• Quantum offers a company-matched 401(k) plan to help employees save for retirement in a tax-advantaged way.
• We also have an Employee Stock Purchase Program for purchasing Quantum stock at a discounted rate.

Pay Range

Anticipated Salary Range: $150,000 to $180,000 for qualified applicants. The above pay range represents Quantum's good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting. Pay within the range will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, relevant experience, knowledge/education, skills/abilities, internal equity, and budgetary considerations.