Principal Quality Engineer

Key Responsibilities
Test Design and Strategy:

-       Designs scalable strategies for complex systems that align with quality goals of the function and product vision.

-       Recommends approaches based on risk to inform architecture and tooling initiatives.

-       Defines coverage across systems to account for technical unknowns, scalability, and integration complexity.

Test Execution:

-       Oversees team test environment setup and maintenance across multiple teams, ensuring scalability.

-       Adapts validation plans for complex systems through risk modeling to address service ownership alignment.

-       Creates documentation for failures across components, implementing corrections where needed

-       Prioritizes risk-based regression to balance speed, risk, and automation coverage across products or services.

Defect Tracking and Management:

-       Takes ownership of reproducing customer issues, performing root cause analysis, and verifying fixes.

-       Manages defects across features.

-       Leads regular reporting on test progress/defects, ensures root causes are addressed through fixes and engineering accountability.

-       Independently conducts post-incident (post-mortem) reviews to identify root causes and recommend preventative actions.

-       Independently drafts findings and action plans for leadership review.

-       Partners with others on troubleshooting and performing root cause analysis to uncover recurring quality issues and drive improvements.

Collaboration and Communication:

-       Supports cross-functional quality initiatives by contributing to technical roadmap alignment, surfacing quality risks, and collaborating with partner teams to drive test alignment.

-       Works with product management and developers to align on areas for testing.

-       Influences the design and prioritizes testing and tooling.

-       Maintains and optimizes test infrastructure, driving efficiency and scalability to improve automation and test processes.

Continuous Improvement:

-       Analyzes and updates processes that improve consistency and reduce friction in engineering workflows within a limited, clearly scoped area.

Automation:

-       Drives team-level quality improvements by identifying process gaps and contributing to local transformation efforts.

-       Develops scalable automation solutions that support test coverage and reuse within a product or team.

-       Promotes automation best practices by resolving complex issues and guiding peers on test maintainability.

-       Integrates automation into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines by contributing to workflow enhancements and reliability improvements.

Risk Assessment:

-       Leads quality risk assessments during product development, ensuring proactive risk mitigation and testing strategies.

-       Identifies systematic impacts of test coverage on moderately complex features areas.

-       Implements and enforces software quality gat