Principal QA Engineer

Role: QA Architect / Test Architecture Lead (API + UI) for multi-tenant  SaaS Application.

• Own QA technical strategy and drive a scalable automation framework for API + UI across teams.
• Lead API test architecture for Java microservices: contract testing, integration testing, data isolation, authentication/authroziation, tenant lifecycle.
• Ensure tenant boundary validation (no cross-tenant data leakage) and coverage for configuration/feature flags, quotas, and migrations.
• Define and enforce continuous testing best practices in CI/CD: test pyramid, tagging, parallel runs, quality gates, reporting.
• Review and refactor existing central E2E framework to improve maintainability, speed, and flake reduction.
• Standardize test data management and environment strategies suitable for DB-per-tenant systems.
• Own UI automation direction using Playwright for Angular applications (cross-browser, critical user journeys, visual checks as needed).
• Establish Agile quality practices: definition of done, shift-left, testability requirements, and quality metrics.
• Develop emerging testing approaches (AI-assisted testing, visual AI, test selection optimization)
• Quality Metrics: "Define and track metrics, test effectiveness KPIs, and quality debt"
• Provide templates, reference implementations, and onboarding so individual microservice teams can adopt the framework consistently.
• Mentor SDETs/QAs and collaborate with Engineering/SRE/Platform on observability-driven testing and triage.
• Requirements: 10+ years QA/SDET, proven test framework ownership at scale, strong Java/API automation background, microservices CI/CD expertise.
• Nice-to-have: Kubernetes/cloud exposure, contract testing tooling experience, performance engineering, accessibility/UX testing.
• Nice-to-have: Media Tech/Advertising Domain knowledge