Principal Test Engineer
About The Position
OCLC has a dedicated team of Quality Assurance (QA) professionals who are passionate about building quality software products and services in the right way. The QA team works daily to understand our customer's needs, and then uses that understanding to ensure that all deliveries not only exceed our customers' expectations, but also meet our own high standards of software quality and exceptional user-experience. At OCLC, QA is involved in the entire project process: monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It’s all oriented to prevention. Serve as a strategic quality leader, define long-term testing vision, and establish organizational quality standards. Drive innovation and influence architectural decisions. Lead the practical adoption and scaling of AI assisted testing techniques, including AI generated test cases, intelligent test selection, and failure analysis. Identify where AI meaningfully improves speed, coverage, and signal quality, and where human judgment remains essential. Define guardrails and best practices for responsible, explainable AI usage in QA workflows
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
- 10+ years of QA/testing experience
- Proven leadership in quality initiatives and strategic planning
- Experienced in AI-powered quality assurance methods like automated test creation and visual regression testing to accelerate and enhance release accuracy.
- Expertise in automation frameworks, CI/CD platforms, multiple programming languages, and emerging testing technologies.
- Required Skills: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber/Gherkin, JUnit, TestNG, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Git, Java, SQL, Postman, REST Assured
Nice To Haves
- Desired Skills: Selenium Grid, Cypress, Playwright, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, GitHub, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives to improve scalability and maintainability of test frameworks
- Leverage AI-powered testing tools to automate test case generation, maintain self-healing automation scripts, and perform predictive analysis to identify high-risk areas in the code.
- Define organizational quality standards and measurable attributes
- Lead innovation in testing strategies and automation practices
- Collaborate with senior leadership on roadmaps and best practices
- Champion early QA involvement and drive quality culture
- Define and monitor quality KPIs across projects
- Conduct risk-based testing and prioritize efforts based on business impact
- Represent QA in cross-functional planning and architecture discussions
Benefits
- competitive compensation that reflects your unique contributions—performance, experience, and skills
- exceptional benefits
- best-in-class health coverage
- retirement plans with generous company contributions
- a commitment to your overall well-being
- Free use of our on-site fitness center, gym sports, group exercise classes, and game room
- Onsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC
- Health and wellness events
- Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
- Tuition reimbursement and Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
- Company-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
