Principal QA Engineer - Quality Strategy | Technical Leadership | Security Domain
Role Overview:
As a Principal Engineer for a Skyhigh Security Engineering, you will play a leading role for CASB software engineering, spanning multiple development teams. In this role you will lead the definition of quality practices of technical solutions, covering design and development and ensuring alignment
with enterprise architecture, engineering excellence standards for quality, and company strategic objectives. This role requires deep expertise in quality engineering practices, test strategy, and automation frameworks, along with strong cross-team and cross-functional collaboration skills, and a passion for driving quality excellence across the engineering organization. You will play a vital role in shaping the domains long-term quality vision and ensuring the delivery of reliable, scalable, and maintainable products.
The role and responsibilities Skyhigh Security seeks a Principal QA Engineer to serve as the definitive technical thought leader, establishing and governing the multi-year Quality Engineering strategy across our complex, highly distributed, cloud-centric security environments.
What You'll Do
You will drive technical excellence and strategic alignment across all quality domains:
Quality Strategy & Architectural Governance
- Establishes and implements the scalable quality strategy, frameworks, and technical roadmap for multi-tenant SaaS environments.
- Evaluates and governs appropriate tools for automated, performance, and security testing, ensuring cloud security compliance.
Automation Platform & Test Implementation
- Defines and develops reusable, secure automation frameworks, integrating continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines with advanced techniques for security and microservice architectures.
- Governs test designs and code standards across teams, ensuring optimal coverage and balancing functional, non-functional, and security requirements.
Requirements & Quality Advocacy
- Champions testability by collaborating with PMs and Engineers to define rigorous acceptance criteria and the Definition of Done (DoD).
- Proactively validates requirements for completeness, accuracy, and potential quality risks related to data integrity and system security.
Execution Leadership & Quality Insights
- Leads and executes all testing stages across the development lifecycle.
- Monitors and reports quality metrics and release readiness via Executive Quality Dashboards.
- Drives organizational Root Cause Analysis (RCA) initiatives to ensure continuous improvement and defect prevention.
Professional Development & Specialist Advice
- Mentors junior engineers via technical coaching and knowledge sharing.
- Maintains expert-level knowledge in a core domain: Security Testing, Advanced Performance Engineering, or Large-Scale Automation Platform Development.
Required Skills and Experience - 14 + years of experience with AWS/Java/Springboot, large databases such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, ElastiCache, RDS, and OpenSearch etc.
- Background in Security Testing and preferably worked on high-scale cloud products that interoperate with other cloud service providers.
- Demonstrable experience in quality engineering, test automation, and continuous integration practices within large-scale, agile software environments.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing quality frameworks for complex, distributed SaaS environments.
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- A flexible, collaborative attitude with a drive for results and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and deliverables in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
