Senior Manager, SaaS Quality Engineering (AI-First SDLC) at Ping Identity
$157,000–$185,000from the description
Aug 11, 2026
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Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A people-management role at Ping Identity leading the Quality Engineering function for the PingOne multi-tenant SaaS platform. The manager will own North America quality execution, drive AI-first and agentic SDLC transformation, and build two pillars — Quality Platform and System Validation — while partnering with Development, SRE, DevTools, and Product teams. The role also carries specific accountability for testing and release-readiness strategy for the PingOne MCP Server and Identity for AI product surfaces.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 700–5,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 15, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The title is 'Senior Manager' — this is a people-management role (hiring, coaching, leading senior engineers) mapped to 11-3021. The alt SOC 15-1253 reflects the strong quality-engineering technical depth required, but management is clearly the primary function.
Location is listed as 'North America' with hybrid or remote options; no specific metro or state is identified, so CBSA and state fields are left blank.
The salary range ($157,000–$185,000/year) is disclosed under Colorado's Equal Pay Act and may not represent the full national range.
Total years minimum is set to 10, the stated floor for overall experience; the 5+ years of team leadership is a sub-requirement captured in context rather than as a separate skill.
AI/agentic workflows and LLMs are listed under Required with firm language ('demonstrated success', 'experience designing, testing, or evaluating AI-agent workflows') and are marked as hard gates.
AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and serverless/Lambda appear in the Required section as practical experience the JD explicitly gates on.
Observability platforms (New Relic, Datadog, etc.) and distributed data/event technologies (Cassandra, Kafka, etc.) appear under Preferred and are marked accordingly.
Test tooling (Java, TestNG, Selenium, Playwright, k6, Gatling, JMeter) appears under Preferred ('ability to guide technical decisions involving… such as') and is marked preferred.
IAM/identity platform experience is listed under Preferred and is not captured as a separate skill since it names no specific technology tool.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): UI/API test frameworks.
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