[Hiring] Principal Technology Architect - QA @Precisely US Jobs

Role Description

We are building the next generation of our SaaS platform, and we need someone to own the quality architecture that makes it all trustworthy. As a Principal Technology Architect - QA, you will design the systems, standards, and governance that raise the bar for quality across every product segment we ship.

We are an AI-first organization. You will put that into practice by bringing AI-driven testing, intelligent automation, and modern quality tooling into the way our teams work every day. This is a hands-on architecture role, not a policy desk. You will:

• Set the quality architecture direction for the org: design quality gates, define reliability targets, and choose the testing infrastructure that all product segments build on.
• Build and maintain a governance model for quality practices so that standards, processes, and tooling are adopted consistently across engineering teams.
• Design and deliver scalable test automation frameworks that teams can adopt and extend to improve coverage, speed, and confidence in every release.
• Bring AI into quality engineering: evaluate and roll out AI-driven test generation, intelligent test selection, defect prediction, and automated monitoring.
• Own the performance and resilience strategy: set performance budgets, define monitoring standards, and create disaster recovery and incident response frameworks.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to balance release velocity with system health, making sure teams can ship fast without cutting corners on quality.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, patterns, and practices that keep our quality approach current as the platform and industry evolve.
• Mentor engineers across teams, raise the bar on how we hire for quality mindset, and contribute to engineering maturity across the organization.
• Represent Precisely externally as a thought leader in quality engineering through talks, writing, or industry engagement.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent work experience is accepted in place of a degree. An advanced degree is a plus.
• Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in software quality engineering, test architecture, or related technical leadership roles, with demonstrated org-wide architecture leadership.
• Quality architecture: Deep expertise in test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipeline design, quality gate implementation, and testing strategies for large-scale SaaS platforms.
• AI: Hands-on experience applying AI to quality workflows (e.g. AI-driven test generation, intelligent test selection, or automated defect detection).
• Leadership: Track record of driving adoption of technical standards across multiple teams or product areas, including working with leaders who do not report to you.
• Travel is required: Yes – Approximately 10%.

Requirements

• Comfortable using generative AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or custom LLM integrations) to accelerate day-to-day quality workflows such as test generation, defect triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Able to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs and set guardrails so that AI-produced test artifacts meet reliability, security, and compliance standards.
• Experience evaluating and integrating AI-powered quality tools (e.g. autonomous testing platforms, AI-based test maintenance, predictive analytics for defect detection) into org-wide workflows.
• Open to continuously adopting new AI capabilities as they emerge and excited to shape how the org integrates them into quality practices.

Preferred Skills

• Experience defining and scaling quality practices across multiple product segments in a large SaaS or cloud-native organization.
• Familiarity with contract testing, chaos engineering, or advanced reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets).
• Bonus points for experience establishing quality centers of excellence or community-of-practice models across engineering organizations.
• Exposure to security testing practices, compliance frameworks, or regulated industry quality standards.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, PagerDuty) at an architectural level.
• Track record of representing an organization externally through conference talks, published writing, or industry working groups in quality engineering.