Principal Software Test Engineer - Ally.ai Platform

General information

Career area Technology Work Location(s) 601 S. Tryon Street, NC Remote? No Ref # 20757 Posted Date 10-01-25 Working time Full time

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?
Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity

Join Ally’s Generative AI journey as a Principal Software Test Engineer on the Ally.ai platform. You’ll define the quality strategy and test architecture that ensure our LLM-powered APIs and platform services are secure, reliable, and compliant. This role leads the design of automated API, performance, resiliency, and security testing that integrates tightly with our DevSecOps pipelines and Cloud infrastructure. You’ll partner with platform engineering, SRE, and cyber security teams to build repeatable, measurable quality gates for Ally.ai

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

 

The Work Itself

• Own the Test Strategy & Architecture for Ally.ai platform services, aligning with the existing test strategy and environments. Define what, where, and how we test across functional, integration, regression, and UAT layers.
• Build end‑to‑end API test automation (Python) for RESTful services, including contract tests, negative/fuzz tests, auth/entitlements, and data integrity checks—integrated with GitLab quality gates and IaC-driven ephemeral environments.
• Production Quality & Monitoring: partner with SRE to convert test signals into production SLOs and alerting; validate audit/telemetry pipelines as part of “definition of done.”
• Mentor & Lead: coach teams on test design, flaky-test reduction, and deterministic testing patterns for non-deterministic LLM outputs; advocate for inner‑source contributions to qual