Principal Test Engineer

• Lead development of system testing strategies, test plans, test cases and test conditions and oversee testing across multiple environments and enforce QA standards and best practices.
• Design, enhance and institutionalize test engineering procedures and standards; define, implement and report on test metrics to measure application quality and delivery risk.
• Champion shift-left testing practices (TDD/BDD, white-box/gray-box testing, code coverage, static analysis, service virtualization) to detect defects earlier and improve code quality.
• Lead and manage complex projects and subprojects: create project plans, assign tasks, estimate effort, manage QA activities to plan and coordinate cross-functional teams in onsite–offshore delivery models.
• Drive automation strategy and implementation across Java and TypeScript stacks; integrate automated tests (unit, API, end-to-end, regression, smoke) into CI/CD pipelines and pipeline gating.
• Own performance, load and scalability testing initiatives and perform holistic system-level analysis to identify bottlenecks and remediation actions.
• Establish and manage test data management, environment virtualization and security testing initiatives to support reliable and repeatable testing across sprints.
• Lead defect triage processes and collaborate with development and product teams to prioritize and resolve issues.
• Provide expert guidance on testing systems, processes and methodologies to clients, IT management and project teams throughout the full project lifecycle.
• Mentor and coach QA engineers; build team capabilities, promote knowledge sharing and improve technical depth across teams.
• Communicate test progress, quality status, risks and metrics regularly to senior stakeholders and product owners; prepare stakeholder presentations and status reports.
• Position requires domestic travel up to 10%.
• Telecommuting permitted up to 60%.
• Position requires demonstrable experience in the following:
• Programming in Java (Java 8+) and TypeScript and experience with Node.js runtime and ecosystem.
• Designing and implementing automated testing strategies across Java and TypeScript stacks, including unit, integration, API, end-to-end, regression and UAT.
• Utilizing TypeScript, JavaScript, and Java test frameworks and tools.
• Automating API and service tests.
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Experience with build and deploy automation and pipeline gating.
• Utilizing APM tooling including Splunk and DataDog to support testdriven performance troubleshooting.
• Testing management and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Git-based source control including GitHub or equivalent.
• Mentoring and coaching junior engineers through defining QA processes and metrics and communicating testing status and risk to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working effectively in Agile and DevOps teams to drive shift-left testing practices including TDD and BDD, white-box and gray-box testing, code coverage and static analysis.

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