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Software Manager, Quality Engineering (SDET & Automation)
Who is Tenable?
Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. 44,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 45 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!
What makes Tenable such a great place to work?
Ask a member of our team and they’ll answer, “Our people!” We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you’re part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without sponsorship. We are unable to provide sponsorship for work visas of any kind at the time of hire, or at any point during employment. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, J-1, etc.
Your Role:
We are seeking a highly experienced hands-on Software Manager of Quality Engineering who will lead the Quality function for an Exposure Management product with a strong focus on an automation-first strategy, observability-driven quality insights, and data-backed decision making. You will step in to directly manage a dedicated team of 6 to 8 engineers, optimizing their workflow and taking ownership of team management. This is a hybrid role
Your Opportunity:
- Manage, mentor, and grow a tight-knit US-based team of 6 to 8 QA engineers and SDETs.
- Conduct regular one-on-ones and build a culture of engineering excellence.
- Hybrid office role: 3 days per week for Maryland residents, 1 to 2 days per week for DC/Northern Virginia residents.
- Operate in a 50% to 60% hands-on capacity.
- You will be deeply involved in designing, enhancing, and implementing the automation framework, as well as picking up targeted SDET tasks.
- Define and execute the long-term Quality Engineering vision, aligned with product and engineering goals.
- Own the automation roadmap across UI, API, performance, integration, and end-to-end testing, ensuring automation is embedded into CI/CD workflows.
- Implement and enhance observability practices using logs, metrics, traces, and synthetic monitoring.
- Partner with DevOps/SRE to improve error budgets and early incident detection.
- Build a monthly Quality Insights report for leadership.
- Define, track, and present data-driven quality metrics such as automation coverage, escaped defect rate, release reliability score, and performance baselines.
What You'll Need:
- 7–10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, including 2–5 years directly leading teams.
- You must have a strong background working in product-based software companies.
- Experience managing smaller teams of 6 to 8 engineers.
- Candidates whose recent experience is primarily managing massive teams of 20 or more engineers will not be a fit, as maintaining hands-on capability is required.
- Deep expertise in test automation frameworks and cloud-based SaaS delivery.
- Experience with Playwright preferred, Selenium, or Python, we value your core knowledge of automation architecture in large environments over specific syntax.
- Strong understanding of observability tools (Datadog, Grafana) and hands-on experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, K6, etc.).
- Strong command over quality metrics, reporting, excellent communication, and stakeholder management skills.
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This is the base pay range for this position. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, location and experience, and may fall outside of the range shown. Employees are also eligible for variable compensation in addition to base pay (commission for sales roles, bonus for non-sales roles), depending on company and individual performance. Tenable also offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefits which include: medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; 401(k) retirement savings with company match; an employee stock purchase plan; an employee referral program; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); education assistance; parental leave; paid time off (PTO); company-paid holidays; health and wellness events; and community programs.
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Software Development Engineer in Test, Intelligence Systems
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.
ABOUT THE JOB
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our rapidly growing team in Reston, Virginia. In this role you will be responsible for testing custom developed software solutions and user-facing software in both a traditional desktop environment and on embedded and custom hardware devices. This role may include writing, maintaining, and executing detailed test plans, and owning testing methodologies across multiple projects. You will analyze test results, support prioritization and decision making, as well as identify areas for improvement. You will often need to find creative solutions to create reproducible testing scenarios and environments. The data you collect may support both finding and fixing bugs, identifying useful new features, and enabling the mission operations for our solutions.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Work directly with project managers to write, maintain, and execute tests for full-stack software and user-facing software on custom and embedded hardware
- Perform various types of testing on custom software projects, including manual testing and automated checks of functionality, performance, and reliability
- Develop creative testing approaches that ensure reusability and provide data to characterize the performance of custom solutions
- Work with existing teams to maintain and update existing testing plans
- Be able to work, in detail, across multiple projects’ testing needs
- Help ensure that shipped software is of high quality and free of defects
- Work with application developers to resolve issues identified during testing
- Drive end-to-end test management and deliver clear, concise reports to cross-functional and program teams
- Execute and analyze simulations including simulated operational environments
- Report to the overall software lead for the project
- Coordinate with other software team leads, engineering leads, and external teams or subcontractors as needed
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of experience in full-stack software testing
- Deep experience with managing complex test plans against evolving software baselines
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields
- Experience working in constrained development environments, including air-gapped systems
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute test plans for complex systems
- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of experience in full-stack software testing, with experience testing embedded systems
- 3+ years building and executing automated tests
- Test experience at all levels of the software stack, from databases to GUI frameworks including but not limited to C, C++, React, .NET, and Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience with various testing regimes from unit-tests to user-tests
- Strong focus on security and user experience
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
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