Senior QA Architect — Automation & CI/CD Lead

Fidelity TalentSource; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity TalentSource is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in Test for Westlake, TX, to design, develop, and extend automated testing for Fidelity Investments' FIA product area. You will apply your extensive QA and automation expertise to build robust test frameworks, lead CI/CD improvements, and champion best practices across teams.

You will drive end-to-end validation, implement scalable automation, and mentor others while advancing deployment automation and testability for high-quality

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience with a bachelor’s or 6+ years’ experience with a master’s degree in computer science (or closely related field).
• Experience in designing and implementing robust QA strategies and test frameworks for API, Web with deep expertise in end-to-end validation.
• Experience in test automation (Playwright/Cypress, Rest Assured, JUnit, Test NG, Maven, ETL Batch).
• Experience with DevOps/Pipelines (Jenkins Core, LWC, Monorepo, etc.).
• Experience with source control (GitHub, Stash (Bitbucket), Sourcetree).
• Cloud experience preferred - Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Top skills needed: Front end, Playwright, Xray, chaos, Splunk, Datadog, node.js, Java, Java Script, Jenkins core.
• Minimum 6 years of experience with architecting automation test platforms.
• Minimum 6 years of experience with architecting and implementing development pipelines (CI / CD).
• Good understanding of accessibility features and building and testing accessible experiences on Web.
• Focus on the deployment automation and orchestration.
• Assist with code branches, merges, builds pipelines, manage versioning etc.
• Use your knowledge of testing and testability to influence better software design, promote proper software engineering and bug prevention strategies, testability and security.
• Actively participate in the development process through writing and maintain application features and automated tests including unit tests, component tests, integration tests, functional tests, performance tests, scenario tests and interoperability tests.
• Collaborate with team members on improving team's test coverage, release velocity and production health.
• Good understanding on writing SQL queries and implementing the data seeding for automation.
• Good to have AWS certification and experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve Fidelity investments software solutions.
• Apply strong software development and test automation skills to support FIA products.
• Design and implement robust QA strategies and test frameworks for API and Web validation.
• Lead automation efforts and drive best practices across teams.
• Collaborate to ensure quality, security, and reliable production health.

Skills

QA strategies

Test frameworks

Test automation

Playwright

Cypress

Rest Assured

JUnit

TestNG

Maven

ETL Batch

DevOps pipelines

Jenkins

GitHub

Bitbucket

Sourcetree

AWS

Front end

Xray

Chaos testing

Splunk

Datadog

Node.js

Java

JavaScript

CI/CD

SQL

Data seeding

AWS certification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Master’s degree in computer science

Tools

AWS

Job description

Fidelity TalentSource is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in Test for Westlake, TX, to design, develop, and extend automated testing for Fidelity Investments' FIA product area. You will apply your extensive QA and automation expertise to build robust test frameworks, lead CI/CD improvements, and champion best practices across teams.

You will drive end-to-end validation, implement scalable automation, and mentor others while advancing deployment automation and testability for high-quality