Senior QA (EDR/XDR/Cybersecurity)

Location: Bangalore – Electronic City Phase 2 (Work From Office)
Experience: 5+ Years
Employment Type: Contract (5 Months)

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior QA / QA Lead with 5+ years of experience to lead and define the quality engineering strategy for complex, security-focused, and agent-based products. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in EDR/XDR, cybersecurity, endpoint security, or similar agent-based products, with a proven ability to design scalable test strategies and lead hands-on testing across multiple platforms.

This role requires a hands-on QA professional experience, who can establish QA processes, automation frameworks, release gates, and drive large-scale endpoint testing from strategy through execution.

Key Responsibilities

- Define and own the overall QA strategy, test architecture, test plans, acceptance criteria, and quality standards.
- Design and implement scalable test automation frameworks and drive automation across product layers.
- Establish release quality gates, entry/exit criteria, risk assessment, and defect management processes.
- Lead end-to-end testing across: Windows, Linux, and macOS endpoint agents, Backend services and microservices, REST/API interfaces, Web/UI applications, Multi-tenant environments, Agent-server communication and integrations
- Plan and execute large-scale endpoint/client testing, including 200–500 endpoint canary testing.
- Define strategies for canary, regression, integration, system, performance, reliability, and compatibility testing.
- Identify critical product risks and ensure adequate test coverage before production releases.




- Drive automation-first testing and continuously improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and reliability.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, Security, and Support teams to ensure product quality.
- Review test results, analyze defects, identify root causes, and drive issues to closure.
- Establish QA metrics and dashboards to track quality, automation coverage, defect trends, release readiness, and test effectiveness.
- Mentor and guide QA engineers and establish strong QA engineering practices across the team.
- Participate in architecture and design discussions to ensure testability, observability, scalability, and reliability are considered from the beginning.

Required Skills & Experience

- Strong experience in QA, test strategy, automation, and leadership.
- Preferred experience with EDR/XDR, cybersecurity, endpoint security, antivirus, or agent-based products.
- Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.
- Hands-on experience testing endpoint agents and client-server architectures.
- Proven experience in large-scale endpoint/client testing, preferably involving 200–500+ endpoints.
- Strong knowledge of API, backend, UI, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience designing or leading test automation frameworks.




- Solid understanding of CI/CD and automated quality gates.
- Experience with multi-tenant applications and distributed systems.
- Solid debugging, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Good to Have

- Experience with EDR/XDR or cybersecurity product testing.
- Experience with endpoint deployment, upgrades, uninstall/reinstall, policy management, and agent lifecycle testing.
- Experience with cloud-based security platforms and SaaS products.
- Performance, scalability, resilience, and reliability testing experience.
- Experience with security testing concepts and vulnerability validation.
- Experience with test automation tools/frameworks and scripting languages such as Python, Java, or similar.
- Experience working with Docker/Kubernetes, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a strong Sr. QA / Lead with hands-on expertise who can build the QA strategy, establish automation and release processes, and independently drive complex testing initiatives across endpoint agents, backend services, APIs, UI, and large-scale client environments. Interested candidate can share your profile.

NOTE: It is an immediate requirement. Priority will be given to the immediate joiners

Pay: From ₹295,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

- What is your notice period duration?
- This is an immediate requirement. How soon you can join?

Experience:

- QA: 3 years (Preferred)
- EDR/XDR: 1 year (Preferred)
- Cybersecurity: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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