Principal Quality Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and enhance the organization-wide quality engineering roadmap.

• Create a framework for quality accountability for engineers, engineering managers, and product managers.

• Outline the test strategy encompassing unit, component, contract, API, end-to-end, mobile, performance, load, and accessibility testing.

• Develop and improve AI-driven quality tools for test generation, code review, and quality guidance.

• Manage CI/CD quality gates, end-to-end and visual regression pipelines, performance budgets, and mobile test automation across emulators and real device clouds.

• Determine which checks will block deployments and which will run asynchronously while ensuring quick pipeline processes.

• Integrate monitoring with incident response and create actionable quality dashboards.

• Offer technical mentorship to QA engineers across teams and provide insights to their Engineering Managers for performance evaluations.

• Guide the technical direction of the QA squad and consistently enhance quality standards, tools, and practices.

• Report directly to the Head of Engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience using AI to generate tests.

• Familiarity with implementing agentic tools like Claude Code or MCP-based workflows.

• Experience in constructing and maintaining component, contract, API, end-to-end, and performance test suites.

• Practical experience with CI pipelines and testing tools.

• Capability to design testing strategies suitable for a team's maturity level.

• Experience in coaching engineers on testing methodologies and conducting enablement sessions.

• Background in mentoring QA engineers across different teams.

• Ability to exert technical influence effectively without having direct reports.

• Experience in hiring, coaching, and managing performance for QA or engineering teams is a plus.

• Ability to collaborate with US-based partners and work during overlapping hours.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary: $80,000–$100,000 USD annually.

• Completely remote work environment.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities and protections against discrimination.