[Hiring] Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer @Advanced Solutions International Inc.

Role Description

The Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Principal SQAE) is the most senior individual contributor in the quality function and a specialist capability shared across every delivery stream. Partnering with the Quality & Security Manager, the Principal SQAE sets test and automation strategy, raises the quality standard across the portfolio, takes the named quality-owner seat on the highest-risk specifications, and drives the analysis that pushes the escaped-defect rate down quarter over quarter. The role leads through standards, architecture, and mentorship rather than through people management.

• Setting test and automation strategy.
• Owning the hardest specifications.
• Raising the standard across the portfolio.
• Shaping the shared automation approach with the Test Automation team.
• Validating the data and integration layers.
• Leading escaped-defect analysis.
• Strengthening the release-readiness decision.
• Mentoring senior and junior staff.
• Championing a shift-left testing culture.
• Performing other job-related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus.
• 10+ years of experience in software quality assurance or quality engineering, preferably on enterprise-level applications, including at least 3 years at a principal or lead level and a track record of setting quality or automation strategy.
• Mastery of modern web automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress, and strong scripting skills sufficient to build complex end-to-end coverage and set the framework patterns others follow.
• Experience architecting or directing a shared automation framework across multiple teams or products.
• Strong experience with API testing tools such as Postman or REST Assured, including contract testing paradigms, and with validating open API integrations and third-party extensions.
• Advanced SQL proficiency, including debugging complex relational data pipelines and validating transactional and reporting layers, preferably on Azure SQL.
• Practical, working knowledge of Microsoft Azure components such as app services and cloud monitoring, sufficient to design and target testing against the deployed platform.
• Deep familiarity building and maintaining build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Expert manual and exploratory testing judgment for the highest-risk changes.
• Experience with Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, and Git.
• Practical experience in an Agile environment using team-level Scrum, comfortable in a model where the dedicated Scrum Master role is retired and team facilitation sits with player/coach engineering managers.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, able to explain quality risk to engineers, product leaders, and executives.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Healthcare Savings Account
• Wellness Benefits
• 401k Retirement Plan with Discretionary Match
• Opportunities for Professional Growth and Development
• Volunteer Time Off
• Study Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Hybrid Remote Work