Principal QA Automation Engineer

Role: Principal QA Automation Engineer

Location: Dallas or Miramar, 3 days in office

Duration: Long term contract

Role Overview

• This is a Principal QA Automation Engineer position within the Center of Excellence team.
  
• The role focuses on building and maintaining centralized automation frameworks for web, mobile, and API testing.
  
• The team does not directly test applications but develops reusable frameworks that other product teams will use.
  

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation frameworks across web, mobile, and API platforms.
  
• Lead technical initiatives and resolve framework-related issues.
  
• Ensure collaboration with other teams and support adoption of automation tools.
  
• Drive and evolve the organization-wide automation roadmap.
  

Tech Stack & Requirements

• Strong experience building automation frameworks.
  
• Preferred tools:
  
• Playwright for web automation
  
• Appium for mobile automation
  
• Open to similar tools if the candidate can quickly adapt.
  
• Experience testing applications built with AngularJS, React, React Native, and micro frontends.
  
• Good understanding of microservices architecture.
  
• Knowledge of BDD and PDD is required.
  
• Mobile automation experience is required, not optional.
  

Team Collaboration

• This is an individual contributor role with leadership responsibilities.
  
• Will work with ~2-3 QA engineers on automation within the Center of Excellence.
  
• Will collaborate with 10–12 product teams to support framework implementation and issue resolution.
  
• Broader CoE team (~6 people) also includes others working on areas like UAT support, process optimization, and data refreshes.
  

Time Allocation

• 25–30% of the time will be spent in meetings, mostly technical.
  
• The rest will be hands-on technical work.
  
• Meetings are not tied to specific product teams—no daily scrum involvement.
  

Interview Process

1. First round: Interview with Surya and one of the current Principal QA Automation Engineers.
   
2. Second round: Interview with Deepak.
   

Location & Hybrid Policy

• Open to candidates in either Dallas or Miramar.
  
• Hybrid model: 3 days in office minimum.
  
• Common in-office days: Tuesday to Thursday
  
• Monday & Friday are typically remote for most of the team.