Principal Quality Automation Architect

Principal Quality Automation Architect

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

The Principal Quality Automation Architect designs and scales Accordion's automated quality framework across products, services, and AI-enabled workflows. This impactful role will be critical in owning the architecture behind automated validation, test harnesses, evaluation pipelines, test data strategy, and cross-pod tooling standards.

This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates).

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What You'll Do:

Automation Architecture

• Design and implement the core automation framework for functional, API, integration, regression, and workflow testing
• Define standards for reusable test assets, environment usage, data setup, and evidence capture
• Create scalable approaches to testing complex, multi-system workflows

AI Evaluation Infrastructure

• Build and maintain regression harnesses for AI-enabled features, including prompt and workflow comparisons, scored evaluation runs, and benchmark execution
• Partner with AI quality analysts to support rubric-based testing and measurable release criteria

Test Data & Environment Strategy

• Define approaches for test data, synthetic data, masked data, and scenario generation
• Improve reliability and repeatability of validation environments

Engineering Partnership

• Work closely with software engineers to improve testability, observability, CI/CD integration, and defect prevention
• Help pods move quality checks earlier in the development lifecycle

You Have:

• 7+ years of experience in QA automation, SDET, or quality engineering roles, with a focus on scale, repeatability, and leverage
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks, API testing, CI/CD, and integration validation – you are systems-minded and deeply technical
• Strong scripting or coding skills
• Experience working with data-intensive or workflow-heavy applications
• Exposure to AI or LLM validation tooling or strong interest in building in that space
• Ability to design frameworks, not just individual tests, and comfortability setting standards that others adopt
• Commitment to balancing sophistication with delivery pace
• Bachelor's degree preferred

You Are:

• Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
• Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
• Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO
• Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture
• Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing)
• A self-starter with a strong work ethic
• Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
• Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
• A team player, able to work with team members across all levels
• Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
• A leader of others; you lead by example

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $150,000 to $190,000 + benefits + bonus.

Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.