Principal Quality Engineer

10 - 15 years

12 - 17 Lacs

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Job Description

  • Architect enterprise level test automation frameworks for backend services, APIs (REST) and frontend applications using Webdriver.IO, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, and emerging tools.
  • Define and enforce quality engineering standards, coding guidelines, and architectural patterns for test automation across multiple product lines.
  • Lead contract testing strategy (e.g., Pact) to ensure API compatibility across microservices and external integrations.
  • Design performance, scalability, and resilience testing frameworks for distributed systems, event driven architectures, and serverless workloads.
  • Integrate security testing (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning) into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations (HIPAA, GDPR).
  • Establish observability validation practices ensuring logs, metrics, and traces meet operational and troubleshooting needs.
  • Drive chaos engineering initiatives (AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin) to validate fault tolerance and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Oversee accessibility testing aligned with WCAG 2.1/2.2 standards, ARIA roles, and automated audits (axe core).
  • Collaborate with DevOps to embed continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Docker, and AWS deployment workflows.
  • Evaluate and introduce AI assisted testing tools for intelligent test generation, defect prediction, and risk based testing.
  • Mentor and coach quality engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Advise product and engineering leadership on quality metrics, risk assessment, and release readiness.
  • Champion shift left testing and test driven development (TDD/BDD) across teams.
How You Will Succeed
  • Proven ability to design and implement enterprise scale test architectures.
  • Deep understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
  • Expertise in performance, security, resilience, and compliance testing in regulated environments.
  • Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence cross functional teams.
  • Strategic thinking with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and future proofing.
  • Excellent communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
What You Should Bring
  • 10+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering, with at least 3 years in a test architect or principal role.
  • Experience influencing enterprise wide quality strategies.
  • Mastery of automated testing tools (Webdriver.IO, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright) and frameworks for backend and frontend.
  • Strong experience with backend services built on Node.js, Express.js, and PostgreSQL (Sequelize, Knex.js).
  • Expertise in Core Web Vitals and app performance optimisation using Jmeter/Loadrunner/any other equivalent tool.
  • Hands on experience in application evaluation AI tools like DeepEval, RAGAS.
  • Expertise in cloud infrastructure testing (AWS preferred) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • Advanced knowledge of accessibility testing and WCAG standards.
  • Experience with REST API testing and contract testing.
  • Track record of leading quality engineering in regulated industries (Life Sciences a plus).
  • Experience with responsive design testing and cross browser compatibility validation.
  • Contributions to open source testing frameworks or QA communities.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with FeathersJS or similar service layer frameworks.
  • Knowledge of design system validation (Material UI, Ant Design).
  • Exposure to Veeva QMS systems and its Quality processes.
  • Familiarity with modern build tools (Webpack, Vite, Babel, ESLint) for test integration and static analysis.
  • Advanced experience with chaos engineering and resilience validation.
  • Deep familiarity with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).

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