Principal Quality Engineer

Stellenbeschreibung:

• Own and evolve the company-wide quality engineering roadmap
• Develop a quality accountability framework defining responsibilities for engineers, EMs, and PMs
• Establish test strategy across unit, component, contract, API, end-to-end, mobile, performance, load, and accessibility testing
• Develop and advance AI-native quality tooling, including AI agents and skills for test generation, code review, and quality guidance
• Own CI/CD and test infrastructure, including required checks, quality gates, E2E and visual regression pipelines, performance budgets, and mobile test automation
• Decide which checks block deployments and which run asynchronously while keeping pipelines fast
• Connect monitoring to incident response and build actionable production-quality dashboards
• Provide technical mentorship to QA engineers across squads and provide input to their Engineering Managers for performance reviews
• Drive continuous improvement of quality standards, tooling, and QA squad practices
• Measure and improve flakiness, pipeline cost, and synchronous versus asynchronous test execution
• Ship new AI-native quality capabilities and communicate the quality vision across product teams

Requirements

Experience using AI to generate tests and applying AI tools beyond personal productivity
Experience setting up agentic tooling such as Claude Code or MCP-based workflows
Ability to design testing approaches appropriate to a team’s maturity and context
Hands-on experience building and maintaining component, contract, API, end-to-end, and performance test suites
Experience with CI pipelines, test automation, and infrastructure troubleshooting
Ability to coach engineers on testing practices and run enablement sessions
Willingness to personally build CI pipelines and tooling
Ability to influence and mentor QA engineers across squads without direct reports
Hiring, coaching, and performance management experience for QA or engineering teams is a plus
Ability to work with US-facing partners and overlap hours

Highest-signal resume keywords

AI Test Generation
CI/CD Pipeline Development
Quality Accountability Framework
Test Automation
Performance Testing

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in quality engineering, including the development of AI-native quality tooling and CI/CD pipelines. Proven ability to mentor QA engineers and establish comprehensive testing strategies across various testing types.