Hiscox
Principal Quality Engineer
Boston · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$140kDetected 21 days ago
TypeScriptGitAzureCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsDevOpsAgilePlaywrightLoad TestingTest AutomationBDDAPI TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- The ideal applicant will demonstrate a strong commitment to scalable automation, effective cross-functional collaboration, leveraging AI in testing strategies, and addressing complex testing scenarios.
Responsibilities
- Partner with QE leadership to standardize tooling, reporting, and quality metrics across teams.
- Lead enablement sessions on Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript best practices, and continuous testing.
- Support performance testing, security testing, and observability initiatives as needed.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software test automation or software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a principal or lead role.
- Deep hands‑on expertise with TypeScript, Playwright, Cucumber, and modern automation frameworks.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud‑native application testing, and DevOps‑aligned QA workflows.
- Experience designing automation frameworks from scratch and scaling them across teams.
- 4 week paid sabbatical after every 5 years of service
- Solid understanding of performance testing, API testing, and test observability tools.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Agile/SAFe practices
- insurance or financial services domain experience is a plus.
Skills
- Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
- Principal Quality Engineer
- Integrate automated tests into modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar).
- Establish standards for test data management, mocking, and service virtualization.
- Evaluate and introduce new tools that improve speed, stability, and observability of automated tests.
Compensation
- The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and bonus (based on personal & company performance)
- Comprehensive health insurance, vision, dental and FSA plans (medical, limited purpose, and dependent care)
- Company paid group term life, short- term disability and long-term disability coverage
- 24 Paid time off days plus 2 Hiscox days, 10 paid holidays plus 1 paid floating holiday, and ability to purchase 5 PTO days
- Paid parental leave
- Financial Adoption Assistance and Medical Travel Reimbursement Programs
- Annual reimbursement up to $600 for health club membership or fees associated with any fitness program
- Company paid subscription to Headspace to support employees' mental health and wellbeing
- Recipient of 2024 Cigna's Well-Being Award for having a best-in-class health and wellness program
- Track and communicate key quality indicators such as automation coverage, flakiness, performance trends, and release readiness.
- Own test strategy for assigned value streams, ensuring coverage, reliability, and alignment with CI/CD pipelines.
Company info
- We are seeking an innovative Principal Quality Engineer who will advance our testing capabilities through modern automation and AI-driven methodologies.
This listing is sourced directly from Hiscox's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.