Principal Quality Engineer

Overview

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.

Compensation / Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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