COST QA Team Leader

Description

Description: 

We are seeking an experienced QA Team Lead to spearhead customer-oriented testing by designing and managing real-world simulation environments. This role requires expertise in network infrastructure, security integrations, storage solutions, and enterprise IT ecosystems to ensure our products work seamlessly in diverse customer deployments.

About Claroty:   

Claroty is on a mission to secure cyber-physical systems across industrial, healthcare, commercial and public sector environments: the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT). The Claroty Platform integrates with customers’ existing infrastructure to provide a full range of controls for visibility, exposure management, network protection, threat detection, and secure access. Our solutions are deployed by over 1,000 organizations at thousands of sites across all seven continents.

Claroty is headquartered in New York City, with employees across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Tel Aviv. The company is widely recognized as the industry leader in cyber-physical systems protection, with backing from the world’s largest investment firms and industrial automation vendors, as well as recognition from KLAS Research as Best in KLAS for Healthcare IoT Security, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, the Forbes Cloud 100, and the Fortune Cyber 60. 

About the Engineering team: 

The Claroty Engineering (R&D) Department is a group of talented engineers with specialties including BE, FE, DevOps, QA and automation, who come from a variety of backgrounds and organizations with strong experience and skills in software development and cybersecurity.

Our engineers use the most state-of-the-art technologies available to build our products – from Kafka to K8s, Spark and latest React/Angular, AWS lambdas & Argo workflows and many others – ensuring the fastest and highest-quality delivery to our customers.

We are solving some of the most complex technical challenges in the industry today – anything from OS-level in-depth activity, networking traffic analysis, big-data analysis, multi-tenancy architecture, and limited resource design and implementation to cope with high-performance requirements and sophisticated UX concepts.

Responsibilities

As a COST Team Leader, your impact will be:

• Team Leadership: Lead the QA and automation team by providing clear direction and mentorship and by fostering collaboration between the feature teams, the hardware lab, and the platform.
• Mentor and lead a team of QA engineers, fostering best practices in automation, infrastructure testing, and customer-centric validation.
• Design and implement customer-simulated test environments that accurately reflect real-world enterprise deployments, including:

1. Network topologies (converged vs. Purdue)
2. Security & IT integrations (Firewalls, NACs, CMDBs, Ticketing Systems, BMS, DHCP, etc.)
3. Network protocols (SPAN, NetFlow, Active Monitoring)

• Ensure end-to-end testing for functionality, performance, reliability, stability, and compatibility across network, security, and storage domains.
• Performance: Verify that the platform operates reliably under both normal and stressful conditions, minimizing downtime and failures.
• Lead the development of robust QA lead, including manual, automated, and performance testing to validate both developer and user specifications.
• Project Management: Plan, coordinate, and manage QA activities across multiple projects and products, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with QA teams, development teams, product management, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, prioritize testing efforts, and achieve quality objectives effectively.

Requirements

What do you need to succeed in this role?

• At least 3 years of experience leading a QA team, fostering collaboration, and driving results.
• Demonstrated expertise in leading or working within COST teams or similar customer-focused testing environments.
• Proven ability to create and manage customer-simulated environments with real-world network designs, security components, and IT integrations.
• Strong expertise in networking, security, and storage testing, with hands-on experience in configuring enterprise infrastructure for QA purposes.
• Experience with network emulation tools (Anue, Finisar, NisT, Swiftest, NetM) for traffic simulation and performance testing.
• Deep understanding of performance testing and load validation using tools like FIO, IOrate, and other I/O benchmarking tools.
• Proficiency in automation & scripting – experience with Python, Bash, or similar for automating test cases and validation.
• Experience with virtualization & cloud technologies (VMware, Citrix, AWS, Windows/Linux environments).
• Excellent leadership, documentation, and communication skills – ability to mentor junior engineers, drive QA best practices, and collaborate cross-functionally.
• Strong technical knowledge of QA processes, testing strategies, and debugging techniques to identify and resolve complex issues.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Knowledge of cloud networking & hybrid deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP) - Nice to have

Why Claroty? Our Culture and Benefits: 

• Claroty is a people first company. With strong bonds amongst the team, we believe in prioritizing personal care and support over work, confident that results follow from a harmonious environment. We celebrate professional and personal successes, committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive space. 
• Work Environment - We have maintained a dynamic, startup approach to achieving our goals. Anyone can introduce new ideas, participate in decision making, and work fast and iteratively to make an impact – from building new product features, to implementing new processes that can make the organization better and more effective. This is evident in our agile software development lifecycle methodologies, instant feedback from the field, and our strong connection with our customers.
• Stability, we demonstrate continued growth over the past few years, raised over 700M$ from top tier investors, we have top tier board members and our products are sold worldwide, over 1000 customers. 
• We care about your development. At Claroty, we prioritize excellence and uphold high professional and ethical standards. We encourage career growth and exploration within the company, facilitated by biannual performance reviews, feedback sessions, and individual development planning, complemented by professional courses.
• We believe in transparency and openness. That’s why we regularly hold company all-hands, town hall meetings, and “Coffee with the CEO” sessions. We also conduct round table sessions and employee satisfaction surveys, to keep a pulse on what matters most to our team members and make our culture the best it can be. 
• While we have physical offices in New York, Tel Aviv, London and Singapore, we also embrace a hybrid working culture. This flexibility allows us to tap into a diverse talent pool and enables our team members to work in a way that suits their individual preferences and circumstances.  
• We understand the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. We provide a biannual “ClaroBreak”, a company-wide long weekend shutdown so we can all rest, recharge and spend time with our loved ones.

Claroty is an equal-opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment for all. We encourage applications from candidates of ALL diverse backgrounds, and special accommodations are available upon request in all selection phases.

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