Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

X4 Technology; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

X4 Technology is seeking a Principal QA Engineer – Technology Delivery to set the technical direction for Quality Engineering across the organization. The role leads the creation of scalable automation frameworks and oversees tooling like Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, and more, guiding teams in UI, API, service, data, and performance testing.

The Principal QA Engineer will remain hands-on while mentoring engineers, defining engineering standards for clean code, observability, and test quality

Qualifications

• Senior technical leader within QA responsible for setting technical direction across QA
• Experience designing and building scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, service, data and performance testing
• Strong CI/CD, test architecture understanding and standards
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Design, build and own shared automation frameworks across UI, API, service, data and performance tests
• Define scalable test architecture, automation patterns and standards
• Own and evolve the QA tooling ecosystem including Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured, Postman/Newman, Karate, JMeter, k6
• Drive automation strategy, coverage and reliability across teams
• Hands-on leadership: write production-quality automation code and frameworks; lead design reviews and establish quality standards

Skills

Java

TypeScript

Python

C#

CI/CD

Automation frameworks

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

RestAssured

Postman

Newman

Karate

JMeter

k6

Job description

Principal QA Engineer – Technology Delivery

+Location: United State

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Role Summ

aryThe Principal QA Engineer is the senior-most technical leader within the QA discipline, responsible for setting the technical direction for Quality Engineering across the organisati

gy
Key Responsibili

tiesQA Frameworks & Automa

• tionDesign, build and own shared automation frameworks across UI, API, service, data and performance test
• ing.Define scalable test architecture, automation patterns and standa
• rds.Own and evolve the QA tooling ecosystem, including tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured, Postman/Newman, Karate, JMeter, k6 and P
• act.Drive automation strategy, coverage and reliability across te

ams
Hands-On Technical Leade

• rshipRemain hands-on, writing production-quality automation code and framew
• orks.Lead technical design, architecture and code rev
• iews.Establish engineering standards around clean code, maintainability, observability and test qua
• lity.Build POCs and reference implementations to help teams adopt new approa

ches
Test Strategy & Quality Engin

• eeringDefine the organisation-wide test strategy and coverage stan
• dards.Champion shift-left and shift-right t testing and risk-based te
• sting.Embed quality gates into CI/CD pipelines alongside Engineering and DevOps.
• Improve test execution through parallelisation, selective execution and test impact ana
• lysis.Establish standards around test data, environments and service virtualis

ation
Non-Functional

• TestingDevelop capabilities across performance, load, stress and resilience t
• esting.Partner with Security and Architecture to integrate security testing into delivery pip
• elines.Establish standards for accessibility, data quality and other non-functional t

testing
Leadership & Stakeholder Ma

• nagementCoach and mentor QA engineers and develop technical capability across the dis
• cipline.Help shape hiring, career development and technical st
• andards.Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Product, Security and vendo
• r teams.Represent QA in architecture, release and incident-review
• nnovationDefine and monitor QA metrics including automation coverage, flakiness, defect leakage and pipeline per
• cross QA.Evaluate emerging technologies including AI-assisted testing and modern automation a
• proaches.Shape the long-term Quality Engineering

strategy
Core Re

• ackground.Expert knowledge of at least one programming languag such as Java, TypeScript, Py
• hon or C#.Deep experience designing and building scalable automation f
• rameworks.Strong understanding of CI/CD, test architecture and modern Quality Engineering
• practices.Experience with performance and/or non-functiona
• l testing.Proven technical leadership, mentoring and stakeholder management e
• xperience.Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical and business sta
• keholders.Pragmatic, engineering-focused mindset with a passion for building quality into software from

the start
Reporting

Scope

Reports to: Director of QA

EngineeringThe role will work across Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Product, Security and internal/vendor QA teams, providing organisation-wide technical leadership across areas including Underwriting, Billing, Claims, Digital, General Ledger and Data

Management.
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