Principal Quality Engineer

Key Responsibility Areas

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of automation frameworks using Playwright, and Cucumber.
• Drive an automation-first mindset, ensuring new features are supported by robust automated tests across UI, API, integration, and regression layers.
• Partner with developers to improve code quality through testability reviews, shift-left practices, and continuous testing.
• Own test strategy for assigned value streams, ensuring coverage, reliability, and alignment with CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks that support multiple teams and applications.
• Integrate automated tests into modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar).
• Evaluate and introduce new tools that improve 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 QE leadership to standardize tooling, reporting, and quality metrics across teams.
• Track and communicate key quality indicators such as automation coverage, flakiness, performance trends, and release readiness.
• Cross-functional Collaboration & Enablement:
• Work closely 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.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software test automation or software engineering, with at least 5+ years 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.
• Familiarity with Agile/SAFe practices; insurance or financial services domain experience is a plus.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and bonus (based on personal & company performance)
• 401(k) with competitive company matching
• Comprehensive health insurance, vision, dental and FSA plans (medical, limited purpose, and dependent care)
• Company paid group term life, short-term disability and long-term disability coverage
• 24 Paid time off days plus 2 Hiscox days, 10 paid holidays plus 1 paid floating holiday, and ability to purchase 5 PTO days
• Paid parental leave
• 4 week paid sabbatical after every 5 years of service
• Financial Adoption Assistance and Medical Travel Reimbursement Programs
• Annual reimbursement up to $600 for health club membership or fees associated with any fitness program
• Company paid subscription to Headspace to support employees’ mental health and wellbeing
• Recipient of 2024 Cigna’s Well-Being Award for having a best-in-class health and wellness program
• Dynamic, creative and values-driven culture
• Modern and open office spaces, complimentary drinks
• Spirit of volunteerism, social responsibility and community involvement, including matching charitable donations for qualifying non-profits via our sister non-profit company, the Hiscox USA Foundation

Salary: $115-$135k