Lead QA Engineer, Enterprise Platform

About the role

Description

Keeper Security is hiring a Lead QA Engineer to join our Keeper Connection Manager team and help ensure the quality, reliability and security of our secure remote access capabilities. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the El Dorado Hills, CA metro area.

Keeper’s cybersecurity software is trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations globally. Keeper is published in 23 languages and sold in over 150 countries. Join one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and help deliver secure, reliable remote access experiences for enterprise customers worldwide.

About Keeper

Keeper Security is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity software companies that protects thousands of organizations and millions of people in over 150 countries. Keeper is a pioneer of zero-knowledge and zero-trust security built for any IT environment. Its core offering, KeeperPAM®, is an AI-enabled, cloud-native platform that protects all users, devices and infrastructure from cyber attacks. Recognized for its innovation in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Keeper secures passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints with role-based enforcement policies, least privilege and just-in-time access. Learn why Keeper is trusted by leading organizations to defend against modern adversaries at KeeperSecurity.com.

About the Role

As the Lead QA Engineer for Self-Managed Keeper (SMK), you will lead testing for Keeper’s customer-installable deployment, which includes KeeperApp, Vault, Admin Console and the PAM routing stack. You’ll validate installation, upgrades, integrations and secure remote access workflows across enterprise environments, including on-premises and air-gapped deployments. This role is highly hands-on and technical, with a focus on functional, integration, regression and system-level testing. You’ll work closely with Software Engineering, DevOps and Product teams to identify defects, expand automated test coverage and ensure SMK remains secure, reliable and performant across complex deployment scenarios.

Responsibilities

Own and continuously evolve the end-to-end test strategy for Self-Managed Keeper (SMK), Keeper’s self-

contained, customer-installable deployment of KeeperApp, Vault, Admin Console and the PAM routing stack

Design and execute test plans covering install, backup/restore, and cross-version upgrade/migration

workflows, ensuring customer data and configuration integrity across releases

Lead functional, integration, regression, system and exploratory testing across SMK components, including

licensing enforcement, TLS/certificate management, and mail/SIEM/audit integrations

Validate secure remote access workflows — PAM Connections, Tunnels and Remote Browser Isolation —including authentication, authorization, session recording/playback, encrypted communication and role-based access controls

Drive and expand automated test coverage for the Vault and Admin Console web applications, partnering with front-end engineering on browser-based (Playwright) test suites

Build, maintain and mentor the team on the shared test harness and the CI gating strategy that runs it

Partner with DevOps/Release engineering on CI/CD pipelines, container image and bundle builds, and multi-distro host preflight checks

Test SMK behavior across different operating systems, network conditions, and enterprise/air-gapped environments

Reproduce, document and track defects with clear technical detail, logs and steps to reproduce across containerized, multi-service deployments

Work closely with Engineering to troubleshoot complex issues involving networking, connectivity, container orchestration, performance and system behavior

Lead sprint planning, requirement reviews and release validation activities, and provide technical QA

mentorship to other QA engineers

Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude, ChatGPT or similar platforms to support test design, troubleshooting,defect analysis and documentation

Requirements

7+ years of experience in software quality assurance, QA engineering, or a related testing role, including prior experience leading QA efforts or mentoring other engineers

Experience testing complex enterprise software, infrastructure products, or security-sensitive applications

Strong understanding of networking concepts, client-server communication, and TLS/PKI fundamentals

Hands-on experience with Docker and Docker Compose, and working knowledge of Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms

Experience testing modern web front ends (e.g., React/TypeScript single-page applications), including cross-

browser functional testing and browser automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress

Experience with functional, integration, regression and system-level testing

Strong troubleshooting skills, including the ability to analyze logs across multi-service/containerized deployments, reproduce complex defects and isolate root causes

Experience testing across Windows, Linux and/or macOS environments

Familiarity with cloud environments, virtualization and DevOps workflows (CI/CD pipelines, shell scripting, build tooling)

Experience working with APIs, databases or backend services as part of end-to-end testing

Strong understanding of authentication, authorization and secure access concepts

Experience using defect tracking and test management tools such as Jira, TestRail or similar

Ability to work closely with Engineering, DevOps and Product teams in an Agile development environment,and to lead cross-functional test planning

Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to improve test development, analysis,troubleshooting and documentation

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Due to this role’s involvement in GovCloud, qualified candidates must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S.citizen or lawful permanent resident

Preferred Qualifications

Experience testing privileged access management, secure remote access, or cybersecurity products

Experience testing air-gapped, on-premises, or disconnected (no-internet) software deployments

Familiarity with automated testing or scripting using Python, JavaScript, Go, or similar languages

Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, ECS, or container orchestration at scale

Experience testing enterprise deployments involving proxies, firewalls, VPNs or restricted networks

Experience designing or extending shared test harnesses/frameworks and defining test-coverage strategy

Experience testing SIEM integrations, audit logging, or SMTP/email delivery pipelines

Familiarity with Apache Guacamole, remote session recording/playback, or Remote Browser Isolation technologies

Benefits

Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)

Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental life

Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance

401K (Roth/Traditional)

A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc)

Above market annual bonuses

Keeper Security, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Classification: Exempt

Keeper Candidate Privacy Notice

This notice explains how Keeper Security processes your personal data during recruitment. Depending on the role and location, the Controller of personal data (the organization responsible for determining why and how personal data is processed) will be Keeper Security Inc. (US), Keeper Security EMEA Ltd. (Ireland), or Keeper Security APAC K.K (Japan).

1. Data We Collect

Information You provide:

Contact details, CV/resume, cover letter

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Assess your application and suitability

Manage interviews and recruitment workflow

Consider you for other/future roles (we may seek your consent to keep your information on our systems beyond the retention period specified)

Comply with employment law obligations

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Legitimate Interests (recruitment management, security and integrity of the hiring process)

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Internal:

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*Note - diversity and equal opportunity data is not shared with hiring managers.

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Applicant tracking, recruitment systems and assessment providers

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Recruitment agencies (where applicable)

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Keeper ensures that all our third parties are contractually bound to protect your personal data with adequate safeguards in place.

5. International Transfers

Your data may be accessed by Keeper entities globally as needed for the purposes of hiring and decision making. We protect any such data transfer between Keeper entities using appropriate safeguards under applicable data protection laws.

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We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data, consistent with our industry leading security standards.

7. Retention

We keep your data for 24 months from your last application activity, then delete or anonymize it.

Exceptions:

You opt into our talent database for further retention by providing consent (extended retention)

You're hired (transfers to employee records)

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You have the following rights and can contact us at the email below to exercise them:

Access, correct, or delete your data, subject to applicable law and retention requirements

Object to or restrict processing

Withdraw consent (where applicable)

Request data portability

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If you become an employee, your rights regarding your employee record are governed by our internal Employee Privacy Notice and certain data will be retained as required under relevant laws such as employment or tax law.

When you request access to your personal data, some information may be redacted if it includes the personal data of other individuals or information that we must protect in order to preserve their privacy rights.

9. Automated Decisions

Keeper does not make hiring decisions using solely automated processing.

10. Contact - Candidates can send privacy questions to: [email protected]

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