Principal Quality Engineer

Job Type:

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of automation frameworks using Playwright, and Cucumber.

• Drive an automation‑first mindset, ensuring new features are supported by robust automated tests across UI, API, integration, and regression layers.

• Partner with developers to improve code quality through testability reviews, shift‑left practices, and continuous testing.

• Own test strategy for assigned value streams, ensuring coverage, reliability, and alignment with CI/CD pipelines.

• Build and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks that support multiple teams and applications.

• Integrate automated tests into modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar).

• Establish standards for test data management, mocking, and service virtualization.

• Evaluate and introduce new tools that improve speed, stability, and observability of automated tests.

• Define and enforce best practices for test automation, defect triage, root‑cause analysis, and quality gates.

• Partner with QE leadership to standardize tooling, reporting, and quality metrics across teams.

• Track and communicate key quality indicators such as automation coverage, flakiness, performance trends, and release readiness.

• Work closely with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Security to embed testing early in the development lifecycle.

• Lead enablement sessions on Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript best practices, and continuous testing.

• Support performance testing, security testing, and observability initiatives as needed.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in software test automation or software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a principal or lead role.

• Deep hands‑on expertise with TypeScript, Playwright, Cucumber, and modern automation frameworks.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud‑native application testing, and DevOps‑aligned QA workflows.

• Experience designing automation frameworks from scratch and scaling them across teams.

• 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.

The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture