Principal Quality Engineer

Hiscox • Atlanta, GA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Hiscox is seeking an innovative Principal Quality Engineer to advance testing capabilities through modern automation and AI-driven methodologies. The role establishes an automation-centric approach, designs sophisticated test frameworks, and integrates quality throughout the software development lifecycle, using AI for efficient test generation, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics. Reporting to the Director of Quality Engineering, this position supports and guides scrum teams, models best practices, and champions continuous improvement. The role is hybrid and requires two days in the Atlanta office each week.

The Principal Quality Engineer leads automation strategy and framework development, promotes robust automated testing across UI, API, integration, and regression layers, and integrates tests into CI/CD pipelines. The role partners with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Security to embed testing early, improve code quality and testability, and support quality governance and enablement across teams.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in software test automation or software engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in a principal or lead role.
• Deep hands-on expertise with TypeScript, Playwright, Cucumber, and modern automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native application testing, and DevOps-aligned QA workflows.
• Experience designing automation frameworks from scratch and scaling them across teams.
• Solid understanding of performance testing, API testing, and test observability tools.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Agile or SAFe practices.
• Experience in the insurance or financial services domain.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of automation frameworks using Playwright and Cucumber.
• Promote an automation-first approach, ensuring new features have robust automated coverage across UI, API, integration, and regression testing.
• Partner with developers on testability reviews, shift-left practices, and continuous testing to improve code quality.
• Own test strategy for assigned value streams and align coverage and reliability with CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks for multiple teams and applications.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Establish standards for test data management, mocking, and service virtualization.
• Evaluate and introduce tools that improve the speed, stability, and observability of automated tests.
• Define and enforce best practices for test automation, defect triage, root-cause analysis, and quality gates.
• Partner with Quality Engineering leadership to standardize tooling, reporting, and quality metrics across teams.
• Track and communicate quality indicators, including automation coverage, test flakiness, performance trends, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Security to embed testing early in the development lifecycle.
• Lead enablement sessions on Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript best practices, and continuous testing.
• Support performance testing, security testing, and observability initiatives as needed.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus based on personal and company performance.
• 401(k) with competitive company matching.
• Comprehensive health insurance, vision, dental, and flexible spending account plans.
• Company-paid group term life, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage.
• 24 paid time off days, 2 Hiscox days, 10 paid holidays, and 1 paid floating holiday, with the ability to purchase 5 additional PTO days.
• Paid parental leave.
• Four-week paid sabbatical after every five years of service.
• Financial Adoption Assistance and Medical Travel Reimbursement Programs.
• Annual reimbursement up to $600 for health club membership or fitness program fees.
• Health and wellness program.
• Modern and open office spaces with complimentary drinks.
• Volunteerism, social responsibility, and community involvement, including matching charitable donations for qualifying nonprofits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed