Principal QA Engineer - Remote

Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) is a leader in risk and compliance solutions, providing insightful technology, industry expertise, and data insights to clients across the globe. We're here to help you make smarter decisions with insightful technology, industry expertise, and data insights at every stage of your business and investment lifecycles. As markets fluctuate, regulations evolve and technology advances, we're there. And through it all, we deliver confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter.
Responsibilities:

• Drive QA and test strategy, including performance and load testing, and execution across multiple development teams
• Drive common test automation, frameworks and tools, and quality assurance measurement across multiple development teams
• Lead multiple development teams to validate and verify software with traceability back to requirements
• Improve effectiveness (coverage) and automation of test suites (unit, integration, regression, smoke, performance, load)
• Ensure test suite execution time supports a two-week production release cycle without compromising quality
• Identify risks to quality in architecture and design and develop risk mitigation strategies for development teams to execute during implementation
• Directly lead remote QA teams to automate tests as part of our Continuous Integration and Delivery release process
• Identify and integrate new test and test automation improvement opportunities into our Continuous Integration and Delivery release process
• Create and report KPIs and metrics to actively manage and provide transparency to product quality and QA process effectiveness
• Design and implement automated test cases within a defined framework to assure the quality of a functional domain; translate existing manual test cases into automated tests
• Mentor software engineers and QA engineers in QA processes and best practices

Qualifications:

• 10+ years validating and verifying complex distributed polyglot systems in multiple environments using C# / .NET, Java, Scala, and/or C++ to improve quality
• 5+ years experience using QA automation and test frameworks in a stage gate Continuous Integration and Delivery process to verify and validate software and improve quality
• Experience driving and/or implementing test strategies and architecture across multiple teams and integrated applications to improve quality
• Excellent problem solving, leadership, collaboration, and teamwork skills
• Extensive experience writing automated tests
• Experience leading multiple small teams to move fast to deliver quality improvement
• Object-oriented design (SOLID) principles and design patterns
• API first design building scalable ReSTful APIs, ideally using an IDL like OpenAPI
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Computer/Electrical Engineering OR equivalent experience

Preferred Skills:

• Containerization and orchestration experience such as Kubernetes or Azure AKS
• Demonstrated expertise validating and verifying fault tolerant, low latency distributed systems at scale in a cloud utility stack (such as Azure)
• Simplicity is your goal - even when it takes more work to achieve that goal
• You insist on a Continuous Integration workflow with zero-downtime deploys
• Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Computer/Electrical Engineering

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