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# Senior Manager, Test Engineering- Networking background is a must at SonicWall

- **Company:** SonicWall
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonicwall/jobs/8346048

## Job description

For more than 30 years, [SonicWall](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc212.net%2Fc%2Flink%2F%3Ft%3D0%26l%3Den%26o%3D4263951-1%26h%3D4126915226%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fnam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%252F%253Furl%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.sonicwall.com%25252F%2526data%253D05%25257C01%25257Cbfitzgerald%252540SonicWall.com%25257Ca6c16b82afc749239f1c08dbda330d94%25257C84fe6f401cbc473083288018b2af88bc%25257C1%25257C0%25257C638343685070400977%25257CUnknown%25257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%25253D%25257C3000%25257C%25257C%25257C%2526sdata%253DQiWUyjNRdG%25252F5Rg2xvGXa1CYzr9V6BNnIgriz33Hk4vw%25253D%2526reserved%253D0%26a%3DSonicWall&data=05%7C02%7CNikhilaR%40SonicWall.com%7Cfd3ae83762384be031d508dcdf3d2ddf%7C84fe6f401cbc473083288018b2af88bc%7C1%7C0%7C638630701067920926%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GhrhwS9jae1nk4KBGBzKfBcXS7BDBmkWDO87fbJLQxQ%3D&reserved=0) has delivered a partner-first unified cybersecurity portfolio that helps SMBs, MSPs, and IT teams consolidate network security, endpoint security, security service edge (SSE), and threat response across hybrid environments. By bringing connected technology, real-time threat intelligence, automation, and expert services together, SonicWall helps organizations simplify security operations, achieve better security outcomes, and lower total cost of ownership. Backed by a global ecosystem of more than 17,000 partners, SonicWall delivers enterprise-grade protection built for SMB and mid-market realities.

For more information, visit [www.sonicwall.com](https://www.sonicwall.com/) or follow us on [X,](https://x.com/SonicWALL) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sonicwall), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/SonicWall/), and [Instagram.](https://www.instagram.com/sonicwall_inc/)

## Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced and technically strong Senior QA Manager to own end-to-end quality for cloud applications, cloud security products, and associated services.

This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for defining the quality strategy, driving automation and test infrastructure investments, and partnering closely with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, Release Engineering, and Support teams to ensure high standards of reliability, scalability, security, and customer trust.

The role requires a strong understanding of cloud applications and distributed systems, along with good networking and security fundamentals. You will help shape how quality is built into the product lifecycle, from requirements and architecture reviews through continuous testing, release readiness, production validation, and post-release improvements.

## Key Responsibilities

Quality Strategy & Release Ownership

- Define and continuously improve QA and Quality Engineering strategy for cloud applications and cloud security products.
- Establish quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and release readiness standards.
- Drive risk-based testing and shift-left quality practices.
- Define test strategies for new features, platform changes, integrations, maintenance releases, and hotfixes.
- Own QA release readiness and provide quality recommendations for go/no-go decisions.
- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to identify and mitigate quality risks.

Cloud, Security & Networking Technical Leadership

- Provide technical leadership across cloud applications, distributed services, and cloud security solutions.
- Define comprehensive testing strategies covering:
- Functional and end-to-end customer workflows
- REST APIs and microservices
- Service-to-service communication
- Authentication and authorization
- Cloud networking and connectivity
- DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, proxies, and load balancing
- Security policies and controls
- Multi-tenant environments
- High availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery
- Upgrades, migrations, and backward compatibility
- Review PRDs, technical specifications, and architecture proposals from quality, security, scalability, reliability, and networking perspectives.
- Drive security and negative testing to validate abuse cases, misconfigurations, authorization boundaries, and threat scenarios.

Automation, CI/CD & Test Infrastructure

- Define the automation vision across UI, API, integration, security, and end-to-end testing.
- Establish measurable automation coverage and effectiveness goals.
- Build scalable and maintainable automation frameworks in partnership with engineering and automation teams.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Drive improvements in automation stability and reduce flaky tests.
- Promote continuous testing and automated quality gates.
- Define the strategy for cloud-based test environments and test infrastructure.
- Partner with DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure teams on environment availability, scalability, and reliability.
- Explore AI and intelligent automation to improve test effectiveness and engineering productivity.

Performance, Scalability & Reliability

- Define strategies for performance, scalability, resiliency, and long-duration testing.
- Drive testing for high transaction volumes, concurrent users, API scalability, service interactions, resource utilization, failover, recovery, and scaling.
- Establish performance and reliability benchmarks for major releases.
- Partner with Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure teams to identify performance and scalability risks.

Execution Excellence & Metrics

- Own and track key quality metrics including:
- Defect leakage and escape rate
- Regression effectiveness
- Automation coverage and ROI
- Automation flakiness
- Release quality and predictability
- Production incident trends
- Customer-impacting defects
- Lead release readiness and quality reviews with senior stakeholders.
- Drive root cause analysis for production escapes and systemic quality gaps.
- Convert production and customer learnings into preventive quality improvements.

People Leadership & Stakeholder Influence

- Build, mentor, and retain a strong QA organization comprising leads and senior engineers.
- Lead and scale geographically distributed QA/Quality Engineering teams.
- Set clear expectations, career paths, technical growth plans, and performance goals.
- Develop technical and leadership capabilities within the QA organization.
- Influence Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and Security leadership to prioritize quality and customer impact.
- Represent QA in leadership forums, customer escalations, incident reviews, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Foster a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, automation, and continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Experience

- 10–12+ years of experience in software QA/Quality Engineering, with 4+ years in QA leadership or people management.
- Strong experience testing cloud applications, SaaS products, distributed systems, or cloud security products.
- Good understanding of cloud, networking, and security fundamentals.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, routing, load balancing, proxies, VPNs, and network security concepts.
- Understanding of cloud networking concepts such as VPC/VNet, subnets, security groups, firewalls, and private/public connectivity.
- Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, authentication, and authorization.
- Experience owning quality for complex software releases.
- Proven experience managing and developing QA teams.
- Strong automation and CI/CD experience.
- Experience with performance, scalability, resiliency, and reliability testing.
- Good understanding of security testing and secure software development practices.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.

Good to Have

- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with SaaS and multi-tenant applications.
- Experience testing cloud security or cybersecurity products.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.
- Exposure to security testing and vulnerability assessment.
- Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, FIPS, or similar compliance programs.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production diagnostics.
- Experience handling customer escalations and production incident RCA.
- Experience using AI/ML for test automation, test generation, defect analysis, or quality engineering.

What Success Looks Like

- Predictable, high-quality cloud application and cloud security releases.
- Reduced critical customer issues and production escapes.
- Measurable improvement in automation coverage and test effectiveness.
- Faster feedback cycles through shift-left testing and CI/CD integration.
- Improved application scalability, resilience, and production reliability.
- Strong security and quality practices embedded throughout the SDLC.
- Strong QA leadership and technical talent development.
- Improved engineering productivity through automation and modern Quality Engineering practices.
- Increased customer trust through reliable, secure, and high-quality cloud products.

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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.

[Applicant Privacy Notice](https://www.sonicwall.com/legal/job-applicant-privacy-notice/)

## About SonicWall

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SonicWall delivers advanced, cost‑effective cybersecurity solutions for organizations of all sizes, powered by real‑time threat intelligence and a partner‑first platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (owned by Francisco Partners; no public ticker)
- **Headquarters**: Milpitas, California, USA
- **Founded**: 1991
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed (company was originally founded as SonicWALL, Inc.)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Computer and Network Security, Cybersecurity
- **Target customers**: SMBs, mid‑market enterprises, government agencies, channel partners (10,000+ global partners)
- **Mission**: To design and develop advanced, cost‑effective cybersecurity solutions built on superior threat intelligence that evolves with partners’ and customers’ needs.
- **Purpose**: To protect and empower the well‑being of organizations online.

## Products & Services
- **Next‑Generation Firewalls (NGFW)**: Hardware and virtual firewalls with integrated threat prevention, intrusion detection, and application control.
- **Cloud Secure Edge (CSE) / ZTNA**: Zero‑trust network access solutions for secure remote access.
- **Endpoint Protection**: Anti‑virus, anti‑malware, and advanced threat protection for endpoints.
- **SonicWall Unified Management**: Multi‑tenant architecture for centralized policy and device management.
- **Managed Protection Bundle**: Subscription service backed by SonicWall’s threat research and 24/7 SOC.
- **SAMI (SonicWall AI)**: Embedded AI to simplify operations, resolve issues faster, and reduce noise.
- **Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Threat Network**: Real‑time threat intelligence network powering all products.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Annual Revenue**: Approximately $480 M (estimated; source: LinkedIn)
- **Total Funding**: Not applicable (private, owned by Francisco Partners; previously acquired by Dell and later taken private)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Francisco Partners (parent company); 10,000+ channel partners; 1.1 million security sensors deployed in 215 countries
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Active job postings surged +92.7% monthly and +172.4% quarterly (LinkedIn data)
  - Recent introduction of SAMI AI and new Managed Protection bundle
  - Expanding Cloud Secure Edge (ZTNA) offerings
  - Headcount of ~1,241 (LinkedIn) to ~1,832 (Built In) – conflicting reports; both cited below

## Competitive Advantages
- **Partner‑first ecosystem**: Strong channel partner network (10,000+) gives broad reach and loyalty.
- **30+ years of cybersecurity expertise**: Deep domain knowledge and a dedicated threat research center (GRID).
- **Real‑time, multi‑vector protection**: Covers network, cloud, endpoint, and remote access in a unified platform.
- **Cost‑effective for SMBs**: Positioned as affordable yet enterprise‑grade security.
- **Embedded AI (SAMI)**: Differentiates by simplifying operations and reducing alert fatigue.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑driven automation**: Expanding SAMI to automate threat response and streamline management.
- **Cloud‑first security**: Growing Cloud Secure Edge (ZTNA) and managed services for hybrid/remote work.
- **Partner enablement**: Strengthening tools and programs for channel partners.
- **Global expansion**: Operating in 46 countries; hiring aggressively in India, US, Canada, and Europe.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, innovative, and fun environment with a “never alone” philosophy. Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) foster inclusion and belonging.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Mix of remote, in‑office, and hybrid roles; many positions are fully remote (US, Canada, Europe, India).
- **Wellness & Benefits**: Mental and physical wellness programs, paid time off, ample holidays, work‑life balance, and competitive compensation.
- **Recognition**: Awards tied to core values; outstanding performance is celebrated.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy focus on networking, security, and AI; teams in Pune, Bengaluru, and US offices. Strong learning and development opportunities.
- **Social Responsibility**: Community engagement, fundraising for nonprofits, and partnerships to access untapped talent pools.

## Sources
1. [SonicWall Careers](https://www.sonicwall.com/careers)
2. [SonicWall Website](https://www.sonicwall.com/)
3. [SonicWall Jobs on Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonicwall)
4. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sonicwall)
5. [Built In SonicWall Profile](https://builtin.com/company/sonicwall)

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