Principal Quality Engineer

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As Principal Quality Engineer, you will lead automation-driven testing initiatives and shape AI-enabled testing strategies to improve quality across the SDLC. You’ll design scalable test frameworks and partner with cross‑functional teams to elevate code quality and shift‑left practices. You will own the test strategy for value streams, ensuring robust automation across UI, API, and integration layers and embedding testing into CI/CD pipelines. This role offers impact at scale, mentoring teams, and advancing modern testing practices within a values‑driven culture.

• competitive salary and bonus
• 401(k) with company match
• comprehensive health insurance
• paid time off and holidays
• paid parental leave
• sabbatical after 5 years

• Lead the design and evolution of automation frameworks using Playwright and Cucumber.
• Drive automation-first mindset with automated tests across UI, API, integration, and regression layers.
• Partner with developers to improve testability, shift-left, and continuous testing.
• Own test strategy for assigned value streams aligned with CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain scalable automation frameworks for multiple teams.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Establish standards for test data management, mocking, and service virtualization.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools to improve speed, stability, and observability of tests.
• Define best practices for test automation, defect triage, root-cause analysis, and quality gates.
• Standardize tooling, reporting, and quality metrics across teams. xklufbp
• Embed testing early with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Security; lead enablement sessions on Playwright, Cucumber, and TypeScript.

Key requirements

• 10+ years in software test automation or software engineering
• 5+ years in a principal or lead role
• Deep hands-on expertise with TypeScript, Playwright, Cucumber
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, cloud-native testing, and DevOps QA workflows
• Experience designing automation frameworks from scratch and scaling them
• Solid understanding of performance testing, API testing, and test observability tools
• Familiarity with Agile/SAFe practices
• Insurance or financial services domain experience is a plus
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills
• communication
• collaboration
• leadership
• TypeScript
• Playwright
• Cucumber