Associate Principal - Quality Engineering

Experience:

• 12 to 16 years of hands on experience in test automation solution building and demo creation for enterprise scale systems with record of driving QE transformation initiatives across large complex programs
• Enterprise Architecture Expertise
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and end to end business workflows
• Deep knowledge of data flow across applications including upstreamdownstream integrations APIs event driven systems and third party interfaces
• Ability to assess quality risks at an enterprise and system of systems level

Core Responsibilities

• Define and drive AI enabled automation strategies aligned with enterprise quality goals
• Architect and implement scalable automation solutions across UI API and mobile platforms
• Design implement and govern QA DevTest pipelines integrated with CICD and cloud platforms
• Provide strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex multi layered production and pre production issues
• Establish QE standards best practices governance models and quality metrics across accounts
• AI Advanced Engineering Capabilities
• Strong hands on exposure to AI based code assisted IDEs and productivity tools eg Copilot MCP Skill based assistants
• Ability to evaluate and adopt AI testing tools and frameworks at enterprise scale
• Exposure to COTS AI testing tools ACCELQ Testim Tricentis ToscaVision AIand their enterprise adoption
• Experience in authoring and maintaining Self healing locators AI driven test generation Smart waits flakiness detection etc
• Key Technical Skills
• Expert level proficiency in JavaScript TypeScript
• Extensive experience with UI automation tool Playwright
• Extensive experience in API automation using REST Assured
• Experience in Mobile automation using Appium or Browserstack
• Strong exposure to cloud based automation platforms supporting UI API and mobile automation
• Deep working knowledge of Azure DevOps Jira and Agile SAFe methodologies
• Strong grounding in testing methodologies risk based testing and QE governance
• Leadership Communication
• Excellent articulation presentation and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to influence and drive enterprise adoption of AI led QE
• Mentor senior engineers and leads act as a thought leader and trusted advisor
• Strong ownership mindset with focus on innovation scalability and long term quality transformation