Principal Software Quality Lead

Job Description:

The Role

As a Quality Engineering consultant you will be an integral part of a product area working across teams and business units. You will ensure that projects meet quality standards by providing technical guidance in planning, designing, executing testing and developing procedures relating to product quality on complex projects.  You’ll get the opportunity to develop your skills, collaborate across Fidelity teams and continue to learn in a fun, iterative, and constantly evolving environment.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• A Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related field

• 10+ years of relevant hands-on SDET work experience with a specific focus on automation frameworks and automation testing.

• Proven experience in Agile / Scrum methodology

• Hands on experience with crafting and maintaining node-based test suites that utilizes frameworks like Cypress or Webdriver.io or Puppeteer or Playwright.

• Must be proficient in coding in TypeScript, JavaScript on Node stack.

• Good to have: Hands on experience with crafting and maintaining java-based test suites that utilizes Selenium, Cucumber and jUnit to test Web UI applications.

• Expertise in web services testing and proven experiance with RestAssured/Karate. 

• Advanced Experience with Git + GitHub, CI/CD orchestration tooling (Jenkins, Travis, Circle or similar), Artifact Management (Artifactory, Git/Stash or similar)

• Detailed understanding of build process for Java (SpringBoot), Node.js (Angular)

• Strong, hands-on testing skills in Automation Scripting, Script execution and Functional Testing.

• Understanding of Cloud Computing and DevOps concepts including CI/CD pipelines using Git and Jenkins.

• Deeply self-motivated with the ability to work independently, coordinating activities within cross-regional and multi-functional teams

• A passion for excellence, innovation, and teamwork; eager to learn and adapt every day

• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, delivery projects, implementation and Agile tools like JIRA

• Strong technical design and analysis skills.

The Value You Deliver

• Finding opportunities to ensure top quality deliverables while maintaining a focus on automation

• Using tools and business knowledge to continuously provide insightful information, reporting and analytics that evolve with changes in the business

• Advises on production readiness for a project/release

• Recommends existing or new testing methods appropriate to each project

• Reinforces testing standards and methodology 

• Influences team to commit to an environment of accountability and of delivering high quality work outputs that add value to the customer experience and organizational productivity

• Participates in the development of quality guidelines, policies, and procedures

• Conducts and directs quality and productivity reviews within working teams or projects 

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Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.