
Principal QA Engineer
KWI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Melville • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the automation and quality engineering vision across teams, establishing scalable standards and modern frameworks (Playwright, API-first testing).
- Act as a hands-on technical coach and enabler, improving automation adoption, stability, and execution speed.
- Transform legacy and slow regression models into fast, CI/CD-native, data-driven pipelines.
- Use metrics, observability, and risk-based strategies to drive release confidence.
- Introduce AI-accelerated testing approaches to increase engineering productivity.
- Own quality outcomes end-to-end, from architecture and testability to production validation.
Requirements
- Proficient in an object-oriented language, preferably Java or C#.
- Strong hands-on experience in Web and Mobile Automation using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Maven, and TestNG.
- Architect and lead the end-to-end QA strategy for a multi-tenant SaaS retail platform, designing scalable, reusable test case frameworks across POS integrations, payments, inventory, APIs, and cloud-based microservices—ensuring full regression, performance, and automation coverage aligned to rapid release cycles and high-availability standards.
- Knowledge of unit testing, regression testing, integration testing, and compatibility testing.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development processes.
- Proficient in using defect-tracking tools like Jira and Test Management Tools like TestRail.
- Solid understanding of MySQL and proficient in debugging
- Strong experience in mentoring QA engineers.
- Deep hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript/JavaScript
- Strong experience in API automation and microservices validation using tools like Jmeter, Postman etc.
- Proven success building or modernizing automation frameworks at scale
- Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines for fast feedback
- Experience implementing AI-assisted testing workflows
- Experience driving automation adoption across multiple teams
- Experience reducing regression execution time through intelligent test strategies
- Performance testing integration into quality strategy
Benefits
- Full Medical, Dental and Vision
- Annual bonus eligible
- Free gym in the building
- Generous PTO policy
- Summer Fridays....all year round
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Discount from building café
- 401(K) with a 50% company match (up to 6% of employee contribution)
- Employee Referral Program
- (1) Volunteer day each year
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaC#Web AutomationMobile AutomationSeleniumAppiumMavenTestNGPlaywrightAPI Automation
Soft Skills
technical coachingmentoringleadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitystrategic thinkingrisk managementautomation adoption