Principal Test Engineer – Agentic AI (Remote)

Job Summary

The Principal Test Engineer comes with proven success applying AI to test automation and quality assurance. This individual is responsible for improving product quality, reducing dependency on manual processes and increasing overall testing efficiency. They help to define and advance our enterprise testing strategy, maintain and evolve the UI automation framework, support load and performance testing and ensure test coverage aligns to system architecture, product risk, and delivery priorities. The Principal Test Engineer develops agent-driven manual and automated tests and guides the adoption of agentic testing practices utilizing best in class AI and testing technologies across engineering, product, and architecture teams to increase throughput while elevating quality.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Agents that perform manual and automated testing to support rapid delivery of code changes.
• Drive the development and adoption of agent-driven manual and automated testing practices to improve test creation, execution efficiency, coverage, and defect detection.
• Define and maintain the overall testing strategy across unit, integration, API, UI, regression, exploratory, performance, and risk-based testing.
• Own the direction, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the UI automation framework, with emphasis on reliability, scalability, reuse, speed, and long-term maintainability.
• Lead the technical approach for performance and load testing, including test design, tooling direction, coverage priorities, result analysis, and recommendations for system improvement.
• Build a strong understanding of system architecture, application workflows, integrations, and technical dependencies, and align testing strategy to the areas of highest business and technical risk.
• Establish, document, and refine testing standards, engineering best practices, and quality guardrails that improve consistency and reduce defect escape.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in test design, framework enhancement, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex quality and automation challenges.
• Mentor members of the quality team in sound testing practices, including stronger use of unit and integration testing.
• Partner with software engineers, architects, product teams, and other stakeholders to influence quality strategy early in solution design and throughout delivery.
• Evaluate and recommend testing tools, frameworks, and methodologies that improve productivity, test signal quality, and long-term supportability.
• Review test coverage, quality risks, and validation approaches for new features and platform changes, and communicate clear recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote continuous improvement.
• Comply with all standards and policies.
• All other duties as required.