Principal Test Automation Engineer ( AI - first )

Roche; Poznań; Hybrid; PLN 228,900 - 425,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Training budget

Recharge Fridays

Take-time program

Flex location

Charity leave

Private healthcare

Group life insurance

Multisport

Stock purchase

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Principal Test Automation Engineer (AI-first) to own quality engineering strategy and automation for a greenfield Prenatal Screening product. This hands-on role focuses on building automated tests, defining standards, and embedding quality into the development process, using AI tooling to scale testing while ensuring patient safety.

The role is in a hybrid setup with in-office days required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineering focusing on automation and quality.
• Experience designing and implementing AI-driven testing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement risk-based, layered testing strategy across unit/integration/API tests.
• Embed quality into daily engineering workflow through scripts, tooling, and reviews.
• Bootstrap Playwright automation patterns and reference implementations for teams.

Skills

AI‑first testing

Agentic testing

SDLC optimization

Regulated awareness

Page Object Model

CI/CD pipelines

REST API testing

Docker/Testcontainers

OOP languages (Java/Typescript)

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

We are seeking a Principal Test Automation Engineer (AI‑first) to own quality engineering strategy and automation for our greenfield Prenatal Screening product – a regulated clinical diagnostic solution for first‑trimester trisomy and preeclampsia risk assessment. This is not a blank canvas: quality and traceability obligations are built into the foundation from day one. As the platform matures, there may be an opportunity to expand your scope further within the portfolio.

This is not a QA management role – it is a hands‑on engineering role. As a Principal‑level individual contributor, you will create automations, define and enforce the standards, establish foundational frameworks, and embed quality into the daily engineering workflow – working with the whole team through code review, tooling and technical guidance. You will apply AI tooling and agentic testing approaches to enable sustainable quality at scale in an environment where software quality is a patient safety requirement.

At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in‑person collaboration. For now, we require employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.

The Opportunity

• Design and implement a risk‑based, layered testing strategy – minimizing risk by coverage through unit, integration, and API tests, reserving E2E automation for critical user journeys.
• Use AI tooling as a primary driver of quality – agentic test generation, AI‑assisted coverage analysis, resilient and maintainable automation, shifting the balance from manual testing effort to intelligent, scalable automation.
• Shape quality engineering practices across the diagnostic solutions portfolio by defining shared standards, patterns, and tooling that raise the quality bar beyond the immediate product squad.
• Define and enforce testing standards, patterns, and best practices, enabling developers to own quality as part of their everyday workflow.
• Bootstrap and define Playwright automation patterns and reference implementations that the development teams adopt and extend.
• Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable feedback on every commit.
• Support the team in meeting medical software quality obligations by contributing to traceability, auditability and compliance processes.
• Evaluate and selectively adopt AI‑driven testing tools applicable to regulated healthcare software.

Who You Are

The “AI‑first” mindset: Beyond technical mastery, we value quality engineers who treat AI as a core partner in their workflow.

• Agentic Testing: Enabling teams to leverage AI agents to automate routine quality tasks, e.g., test generation, failure triage, flaky test maintenance, so engineering effort focuses on what requires human judgment.
• SDLC Optimization: Using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) to accelerate test design, coverage analysis, and quality pipeline improvements.
• Regulated Awareness: Understanding that AI‑generated test artifacts in a medical software context require validation, traceability, and human oversight – and building that into the workflow from the start.

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of testing strategy designs – test pyramid thinking, shift‑left practices, test isolation strategies, test parallelism, parametrization.
• Hands‑on experience with highly scalable testing frameworks for E2E and integration scenarios.
• Proven experience with OOP languages (e.g., Java, Typescript) and principles; multiple languages are an asset.
• Understanding and ability to apply testing patterns like Page Object Model, Screenplay, AAA, data‑driven testing.
• Extensive experience in developing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar), including sharding, parallelism.
• Understanding of API testing – REST, contract validation, backend integration verification.
• Fluency in AI‑driven development and testing – flexible using different tools, preventing AI slop, applying agentic workflows and prompt engineering to daily work.
• Experience with containerized test environments (Docker, Testcontainers) for reliable, reproducible test execution.

Experience

• 8+ years in software engineering, with a focus on quality engineering and test automation roles.
• Track record of setting and enforcing quality standards across teams, not just executing within them.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Benefits

• Annual bonus payment based on performance.
• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths).
• Recharge Fridays – 2 Fridays off per quarter available.
• Take‑time Program – up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose.
• Flex Location – possibility to perform work from different places in the world for a certain period of time.
• Take Time for Charity – additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice.
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
• Stock share purchase additions.
• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!

Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit, is 228,900.00 PLN – 425,100.00 PLN. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 20% subject to individual and company performance.

This position also offers an attractive benefits package.

About the Company

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advancing science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life‑changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.