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Backbase is seeking a Lead Principal QA Engineer to contribute to the future of their Digital Banking platform. This role involves a strategic approach to quality, elevating testing standards, championing automation, and embedding a culture of quality across product teams. The Lead Principal QA Engineer will be part of the technical leadership within the value stream and a key member of the QA Guild. They will define and guide QA strategy across teams, aligning it with the broader product and engineering vision.
Role involves:
- Driving QA strategy, standards, and alignment across multiple teams in the value stream.
- Ensuring testing approaches meet high-quality standards across all products.
- Mentoring and guiding QA Engineers of all levels.
- Championing test automation and CI/CD best practices.
- Collaborating with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders.
- Owning the QA OKRs within the value stream.
- Leading strategic QA initiatives and contributing to the evolution of QA Guild standards and tools.
- Acting as the go-to quality expert for both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Requirements:
- 7–10+ years in QA roles, with significant experience in strategy, automation, and cross-team collaboration.
- Proven experience influencing and guiding QA practices across multiple teams or products.
- Strong knowledge of web and mobile test automation, ideally with tools like Playwright, Appium, Selenium, Postman etc etc.
- Hands-on programming ability in one or more modern languages (e.g., JavaScript, Java, Python).
- Comfort working in CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.
- Experience mentoring QA Engineers and shaping career paths.
- Ability to align testing initiatives with business and product goals.
- Strong communicator with stakeholder-facing experience.
