Quality Engineer, Principal

We are looking for a Principal Quality Engineer to lead quality transformation across cloud-native platforms and enterprise products. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining automation strategy, improving release quality, and driving engineering excellence across distributed teams.

This role requires strong hands-on expertise along with strategic influence across Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams.

• Define and drive enterprise-level quality strategy.

• Establish release quality gates and measurable KPIs.

• Improve DORA metrics, defect escape rates, and automation coverage.

• Implement shift-left testing and quality engineering best practices.

• Design scalable automation frameworks (UI, API, integration, performance).

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

• Lead API, microservices, and cloud validation testing.

• Improve automation stability and execution efficiency.

• Validate AWS/Azure/GCP-based deployments.

• Lead performance, resiliency, and reliability testing.

• Drive containerized and Kubernetes-based test strategy.

• Partner with SRE teams on SLO/SLA validation.

• Mentor senior QA engineers and SDETs.

• Influence architecture decisions from a quality standpoint.

• Lead quality reviews for major releases and migrations.

• Collaborate with global engineering teams.

• 12–15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering / Test Architecture.

• Strong programming skills (Java or Python preferred).

• Expertise in:

  • Selenium / Playwright / Cypress

  • REST API testing frameworks

  • CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)

  • Performance testing tools (JMeter, k6)

  • Docker & Kubernetes

• Experience in cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).

• Strong understanding of Agile and DevOps practices.

• Experience in large-scale cloud migration validation.

• Knowledge of observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Exposure to security and compliance testing.

• Experience working with global teams across time zones.

Additional Information

The recruitment process includes online assessments as a first step - we send them via e-mail, please check also your SPAM folder

Work Location: Strategy Chennai office — full-time, Monday to Friday