Principal QA Engineer

Fidelity•Westlake, TX

About The Position

Tests distributed applications and their interactions across microservices architectures. Develops automated test cases using test automation frameworks and develops in-house software utilities. Builds, deploys, and maintains CI/CD pipelines, and monitors equipment to ensure systems operate in conformance with specifications. Designs, develops, and modifies software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design. Provides technical guidance in planning, designing, and executing testing and in developing procedures relating to product quality on complex projects. The role also reviews software documentation, code, application designs, business and functional requirements, and reports on software problems; improves QA processes and test plans; coordinates regression and production verification testing; performs ad hoc, regression, and sanity testing; and communicates risks and issues to management. The position requires qualifying education and experience in developing and maintaining test automation frameworks in a financial services environment. Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles; current onsite expectations vary and may evolve. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent), and five years of experience as a Principal QA Engineer or in a closely related occupation developing and maintaining test automation frameworks using Java, Cucumber, Playwright, and Karate in a financial services environment; alternatively, a master’s degree in one of these fields (or foreign education equivalent) and three years of such experience.
Demonstrated expertise developing and executing software test strategies, plans, and effort estimates using Jira Xray and Confluence.
Demonstrated expertise performing sanity, functional, regression, ad hoc, and end-to-end testing; supporting components through system testing, integration testing, and deployment to UAT and production environments.
Demonstrated expertise defining and implementing test automation frameworks using Selenium, Cucumber, Java, and Maven, and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
Demonstrated expertise developing enterprise-wide test automation strategies and architecture and process artifacts using Miro and Enterprise Architect.
Demonstrated expertise building and maintaining reusable UI and API test automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured, and Karate, with programming in Java and Python.
Demonstrated expertise architecting enterprise automation frameworks and defining automation roadmaps for Agile and CI/CD environments using Playwright, Git, and Jenkins.
Demonstrated expertise establishing best practices, toolchains, and reusable components across web, mobile, and API platforms using Selenium and Karate.
Demonstrated expertise analyzing BPMN workflows using Camunda and its APIs, and designing web application automation frameworks using Maven, Cucumber, and WebDriver, including Selenium WebDriver scripts for regression and performance testing.

Responsibilities

Test distributed applications and interactions across microservices architectures.
Develop automated test cases using test automation frameworks and develop in-house software utilities.
Build, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
Monitor equipment functioning to ensure systems operate in conformance with specifications.
Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design.
Provide technical guidance for planning, designing, and executing testing and developing procedures related to product quality on complex projects.
Review software documentation for technical accuracy, compliance, completeness, and risk mitigation.
Perform code reviews and formal reviews of application designs, business requirements, and functional requirements.
Review reports on software problems.
Define and implement QA process improvements focused on defect prevention.
Recommend strategies and methods to improve test plans and test processes.
Define and coordinate regression tests and determine production verification and validation processes for future projects.
Perform ad hoc, regression, and sanity testing for application release versions.
Communicate risks, issues, and concerns with management to derive appropriate solutions.
Develop and execute software test strategies, plans, and effort estimates; perform sanity, functional, regression, ad hoc, and end-to-end testing; support system components through system and integration testing and deployment to UAT and production.
Define enterprise-wide test automation strategies and develop architecture and process artifacts.
Design, build, and maintain scalable, reusable UI and API test automation frameworks and define automation roadmaps for Agile and CI/CD environments.
Establish best practices, toolchains, and reusable components to improve test efficiency, coverage, and release velocity across web, mobile, and API platforms.
Analyze BPMN workflows for alignment with business requirements by validating process logic, decision tables, service tasks, and user tasks.
Develop and enhance web application test automation frameworks and automated scripts supporting regression and performance testing.