Principal Software Development Engineer in Test

uality and ensure the software released meets the quality expectations. You will be responsible for building, owning and maintaining test automation frameworks for various components of the Delivery Platform, and will be using agile practices to ensure rapid, iterative execution.

As the ideal candidate:

• You are passionate about product quality and test automation

• You understand what it takes to build and support business critical desktop clients, components, services and frameworks

• You have a passion for programming, CI/CD and automation

• You are customer oriented, and drive towards addressing customer pain points

• You are curious about emerging technologies and understand how to responsibly apply AI tools and practices to improve engineering efficiency and business outcomes

• You know how to equip your teams to use AI smartly-from automating routine tasks to enhancing decision-making-while keeping a human-first approach

• You have a passion to lead

Responsibilities:

• Own overall quality of the platform, components and web services

• Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks for desktop clients, components, and web services

• Lead the manual and automated testing strategy for the ongoing releases

• Align with team goals that connect to the wider organizational goals

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders

• Drive and champion CI/CD and Automation practices across the organization

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of software engineering and automation experience

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field

• Have excellent communication skills

• Experience with Scrum and agile processes

• Experience with AWS cloud services and business functionality

• Experience or familiarity with automation frameworks such as Selenium, TDD, BDD

• Technology stack: C++/C#/JavaScript/AWS for desktop/web development

• Awareness of AI/ML fundamentals and experience leveraging AI-driven tools in software engineering workflows (e.g., code generation, CI/CD automation, monitoring, or analytics)

• Strong judgment in balancing AI adoption with engineering best practices, ensuring quality, maintainability, and ethical use

• Cross-platform development experience with Windows, Mac and Linux will be a bonus

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