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Hiscox

Principal Quality Engineer

Hiscox

. Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of automation frameworks using Playwright, and Cucumber.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $120,000 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AzureCloudJenkinsTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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).
  • Establish standards for test data management, mocking, and service virtualization.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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

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Hard Skills & Tools
PlaywrightCucumberTypeScriptautomation frameworksCI/CD pipelinesperformance testingAPI testingtest observabilitytest automationdefect triage
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationtechnical leadership