Principal Software Engineer

Fidelity • Westlake, TX

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Fidelity Investments has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer with a strong quality engineering background. This individual will be responsible for crafting and developing test automation and in-house software utilities as part of the Quality Engineering organization within Fidelity’s Workplace Investing division. This role is based in Westlake, TX. The Team The ideal candidate is a Quality focused professional with experience in Quality Engineering aspects of application delivery in an Agile environment across global locations. Working within the Workplace Investing Quality Engineering (QE) organization, this role will support modernization efforts for desktop applications and a rules management engine, focused on UI and API capabilities. The Role In this role, you will be working with a team of technologists passionate about delivering Continuous Quality, Continuous Integration, and Test Automation across the product ecosystem as well as consulting with development and business partners with a customer focus. As a technical associate of this team, you will be crafting our technology vision and will have a real impact on the success of our new Rules Management system.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 10 years in Software Quality Engineering roles
• Proven experience working in Scrum / Agile methodologies
• Hands-on experience with developing and maintaining test frameworks like Selenium, Karate, and Playwright
• Demonstrated technical skills with Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, and SQL
• Highly collaborative individual with ability to lead and influence others, building strong partner relationships both internally and externally
• Experienced in testing distributed applications with UI and their interactions across multiple layers (e.g., API, Backend, etc.)

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience with a modernization and migration project is desired
• Passionate about delivering on behalf of the business for the benefit of our end customers
• Your ability to work in a fast paced, globally dispersed, agile environment
• Solid understanding of Agile practices to provide ideas that improve releases
• Strong technical acumen and an engineering mindset
• Ability to adapt to new environments and learn in-house developed tools and practices

Responsibilities

• Ensuring high quality of application delivery through test automation and execution
• Reinforcing Quality direction and contributing to a high performing team
• Communicating effectively across globally dispersed team members
• Communicating across multiple layers of the organization in support of Quality
• Ensuring consistent application of Quality Engineering best practices
• Demonstrating an Agile mindset in actions and behaviors

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees