Quality Engineer

About the Role

This role focuses on enabling full stack solutions through multi-disciplinary team planning and ecosystem integration to accelerate delivery and drive quality across the application lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform continuous testing for security, API, and regression suite.
• Create automation strategy, automated scripts, and support data and environment configuration.
• Participate in code reviews, monitor, and report defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing process.
• Operate and maintain a hybrid identity architecture based on on-premise Active Directory and Entra ID in the M365 cloud.
• Manage Azure AD Connect synchronization, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
• Administer Active Directory core services, including domains and trusts, sites and services, replication topology, and DNS integration.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and stability of directory services.
• Administer Entra ID and Microsoft 365 tenant configuration.
• Manage and optimize Conditional Access Policies, Identity Protection and authentication methods, and tenant-wide security and identity settings.
• Support application integrations and identity federation scenarios.
• Review and validate requests to ensure compliance with internal standards and processes.
• Implement approved requests in a controlled and auditable manner.
• Manage access and permission delegation through Quest Active Roles.
• Harden AD, Entra ID, and M365 environments based on security best practices and frameworks (e.g., CIS Benchmarks).
• Ensure least-privilege access models, secure authentication and authorization designs, and regular review of privileged roles and access paths.
• Minimize risks for cyber-attacks or similar vulnerabilities.
• Support audits, security assessments, and remediation activities.
• Perform governance, auditing, and reporting of AD using Quest's Active Administrator, Change Auditor, Enterprise Reporter, and IT Security Search.
• Support Mergers and Acquisitions (MA) activities from an identity perspective, including B2B collaboration and external identity enablement, migration from legacy AD and M365 environments using Quest On-Demand Migration, and tenant-to-tenant and directory consolidation scenarios.
• Design and execute secure migration strategies with minimal business disruption.
• Perform AD backup and recovery through Quest Recovery Manager.
• Manage Commvault Cloud (Metallic) as the M365 backup and recovery solution.
• Ensure regular backup validation and recovery readiness for identities, M365 workloads, and configurations.
• Ensure compliance with retention and recovery requirements.
• Automate tasks through PowerShell scripting.
• Support the design and implementation of self-service workflows for identity-related use cases.
• Collaborate closely with the IAM team to align AD and M365 processes with SailPoint.
• Migrate or redesign existing Quest Active Roles workflows into SailPoint.
• Promote automation, standardization, and reduction of manual administrative effort.
• Work within ITIL-based processes, including Incident Management, Service Request Fulfilment, and Problem Management.
• Act as a technical consultant for internal teams and stakeholders.
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support for identity-related issues.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• AWS Administration (minimum 2 years)
• Active Directory
• Entra ID
• M365
• Azure AD Connect
• Quest Active Roles
• CIS Benchmarks
• Quest's Active Administrator
• Quest Change Auditor
• Quest Enterprise Reporter
• Quest IT Security Search
• Quest On-Demand Migration
• Quest Recovery Manager
• Commvault Cloud (Metallic)
• PowerShell
• SailPoint
• ITIL

Qualifications

• 15 years full-time education
• Strong expertise in on-premise Active Directory architecture and operations.
• In-depth knowledge of Entra ID and Microsoft 365 identity services.
• Sophisticated scripting knowledge, especially Microsoft PowerShell.
• Hands-on experience with Azure AD Connect.
• Solid understanding of authentication and authorization concepts, and identity lifecycle management.
• Experience with Quest Active Directory management and migration tools.
• Knowledge of backup and recovery concepts for identity and M365 workloads, ideally based on Commvault Cloud (Metallic).
• Strong understanding of identity security best practices including resilience against cyber-attacks.
• Experience applying security frameworks (e.g., CIS).
• Ability to assess risks and enforce governance standards.
• Familiarity with audit, compliance, and reporting requirements.
• Experience working in ITIL-based service organizations.
• Structured, analytical, and proactive working style.
• High level of service orientation and customer focus.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work effectively under pressure.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Very good communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Team-oriented mindset with the ability to work independently.
• High level of responsibility and ownership.
• Resilience, flexibility, and adaptability in complex environments.
• Fluent English, written and verbal. (German is a plus)