Principal Software Quality Engineer

7 years

5 - 8 Lacs

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Job Description

Meet Our Team:

As a Principal member of one of the most innovative and fastest growing groups at Pega, you will lead quality engineering initiatives and work closely with talented engineers, architects, and product owners across the globe to build a highly scalable Software as a Service (SaaS) offering.

The CDH team builds inbound features on the Pega Platform, delivering real-time Next-Best-Action recommendations that ensure relevant, timely, and consistent customer interactions across channels, with a strong focus on architecture and application maturity. In this role, you'll serve as a key technical leader and quality engineering architect, pioneering the use of GenAI capabilities to revolutionize testing practices while building intelligent systems that ensure the highest quality standards across our platform

Picture Yourself at Pega:

  • Pega is changing the way the world builds software. Our goal is to be the no. 1 CRM SaaS company in the world.
  • In this role, you'll act as a quality engineering thought leader, shaping test architecture and automation strategies while pioneering AI-powered solutions that analyze existing code, UX specifications, and technical documentation to automatically generate integration tests that run continuously on test pipelines.
  • Pega is staying on the cutting edge of technology, including GenAI capabilities. This is your chance to lead the transformation of quality assurance using cutting-edge GenAI technologies and guide teams in implementing modern testing practices.

What You'll Do at Pega:

  • Lead design of scalable test automation frameworks and strategies
  • Build GenAI-driven systems for automated test generation and coverage
  • Develop AI pipelines and prompt engineering for dynamic test cases
  • Own automation architecture for cloud and distributed systems
  • Mentor teams and set quality standards with shift-left practices
  • Drive innovation with AI-based testing, self-healing, and synthetic data
  • Integrate automation into CI/CD for seamless execution and feedback
  • Define KPIs for coverage, reliability, and maintainability
  • Lead performance and scalability testing for complex platforms
  • Align quality strategies with business goals and Scrum processes

Who You Are:

Results-driven quality engineering leader with deep technical expertise and an innovation mindset. Skilled in designing scalable quality architectures, building GenAI-powered testing systems, and guiding teams to excellence. Known for sound decision-making, mentoring, and setting high standards for technical quality.

  • 7–10 years in quality engineering with expertise in test automation, frameworks, and leadership
  • Proficient in Selenium, Playwright, Cypress; skilled in enterprise-scale automation architecture
  • Strong experience in API testing (Karate, REST Assured) and CI/CD integration (Jenkins, DevOps)
  • Hands-on with GenAI and LLMs for AI-driven test generation and maintenance
  • Deep understanding of workflows, system architecture, and distributed/cloud systems
  • Skilled in designing end-to-end test strategies, automation best practices, and quality standards
  • Strong programming foundation (Java, Python) and data handling (XML/JSON)
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder influence, and team mentorship skills

What You've Accomplished:

  • Proven leader in designing enterprise-scale automated test frameworks and driving quality transformation
  • Skilled in aligning quality strategies with business goals through collaboration with engineering and product leadership
  • Experience mentoring teams and building high-performing quality engineering organizations
  • Familiarity with Customer Decision Hub (CDH) or similar real-time decisioning platforms is a plus

Additional Skills for Principal-Level Excellence:

  • Develop long-term quality strategies and roadmaps aligned with business objectives
  • Expertise in load testing and scalability using JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner
  • Knowledge of vulnerability assessment and secure coding practices
  • Familiar with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and cloud-native testing approaches
  • Define and track KPIs, defect trends, and automation ROI for data-driven decisions

Pega Offers You:

  • Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
  • Continuous learning and development opportunities, including exposure to cutting-edge GenAI technologies and quality engineering innovations
  • An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
  • Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company
  • Opportunity to shape quality engineering practices and lead technical transformation initiatives
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AI in Action – Pega embraces the power of artificial intelligence. We encourage all employees to actively engage with AI technologies and continually explore ways to responsibly integrate AI into our products and processes. We may support parts of our recruitment process with automatic processing and, if required by law, you may in such cases have the right to request human intervention, challenge the outcome of such processing and comment on it.

Culture – At Pegasystems, we foster an environment where people feel valued and empowered to contribute their best. With global clients across industries and regions, we know our success depends on the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents of our people. Ours is a workplace where everyone can grow, collaborate, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences and focus on the core competencies and mindset needed to thrive in a role.

As an Equal Opportunity employer, Pegasystems will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran or disability status, or any other category protected by law.

Export Compliance – For positions requiring access to technical data subject to export control regulations such as this, Pegasystems may need to obtain export license approval from the U.S. Government and EU Authorities for certain individuals.

Accommodations – If you require reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (US only) or comparable regional regulations in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please contact us here or contact (US only) 1-888-PEGA-NOW and/or 225 Wyman Street Waltham, MA 02451 ATTN: Benefits.

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