
Principal Quality Engineer – Travel Sector
NTT DATA Romania
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Romania
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About the role
- Act as a Quality Advocate across missions and programmes, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Provide thought leadership in quality engineering, test automation, and agile best practices
- Lead the automation strategy and roadmap across teams, ensuring scalability and maintainability
- Assess the current state of quality across multiple teams or missions and identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities
- Drive automation metrics and reporting to measure effectiveness and ROI
- Guide teams on automation coverage, tooling selection, and test pyramid strategy
- Mentor and guide QE and SDET team members where required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Informatics/ or similar field of study/or equivalent working experience is required
- Minimum 5 years demonstrable experience in a similar role is required
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies (Scrum)
- Strong experience in Quality Engineering, test automation, and agile delivery
- Proven experience leading or contributing to enterprise-scale programmes
- Hands-on knowledge of test automation frameworks (UI, API and backend), CI/CD pipelines, and quality metrics.
- Proficiency in modern programming/scripting languages used for test automation
- Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and ownership
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Self-driven and proactive, with a mindset of continuous improvement
- Confident in making recommendations and driving them to completion
- Balanced technical depth and strategic thinking
- Proven track record in defect management and SLA-driven environments.
- Excellent English verbal and written skills
Benefits
- New beginnings can be a challenge. We promise a smooth integration and a supportive mentor
- Pick your working style: choose from Remote, Hybrid or Office work opportunities
- Early bird or night owl? Our projects have different working hours to suit your needs
- Nobody is born an expert. Sharpen your tech skills with our sponsored certifications, trainings and top e-learning platforms
- We want you to stay healthy! Enjoy our Private Health Insurance – it’s custom-made for you
- A clear mind is a healthy mind. Attend individual coaching sessions or go one step further by joining our accredited Coaching School
- Make the most of our epic parties or themed events – they’re lovingly designed for our people and their families
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Quality Engineeringtest automationAgile deliverytest automation frameworksCI/CD pipelinesquality metricsprogramming languagesscripting languagesdefect managementSLA-driven environments
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunication skillsself-drivenproactivecontinuous improvementstrategic thinkingthought leadershipmentoringautonomyownership
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Informatics