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Our platform powers over 50,000 associations and 6 million homes, connecting property managers, boards, and residents through secure, reliable, and intelligent technology.\nAs we modernize our architecture and delivery practices, quality is no longer a separate function or phase, it is a principle built into every step of the software lifecycle. We are looking for a Principal Quality Automation Engineer who embodies this belief and helps elevate quality across our global engineering community.\nAbout the Role\nThe Principal Quality Automation Engineer is a hands-on, player-coach engineer who designs and leads quality automation strategies that improve stability, speed, and customer trust across the platform.\nYou will work across teams, helping engineering and product leaders adopt practices that push quality into design and development. You will champion a shift-left mindset, building testability into architectures, automation into pipelines, and quality into daily habits.\nThis is a role for someone who loves building systems as much as testing them, an AI-native engineer who leverages automation, data, and intelligent tooling to make quality scalable. You will influence architecture decisions, drive continuous feedback loops, and help create a culture where quality is everyone’s job.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and implement automation frameworks and test strategies that ensure system stability, resilience, and customer satisfaction\nEmbed with engineering teams to guide and influence test design, architectural decisions, and development practices that produce built-in quality\nWork across the engineering organization to define patterns and practices for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing that align with CI/CD and deployment pipelines\nLead initiatives that use AI-assisted testing, intelligent validation, and self-healing test automation to scale quality across teams\nServe as a technical mentor and coach, teaching engineers how to write better tests, instrument better observability, and think critically about user outcomes\nCollaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to ensure user stories are testable, measurable, and aligned with customer needs\nDrive a shift-left quality culture by integrating test feedback early in design and development cycles\nActively participate in design reviews, pairing sessions, and architecture discussions to improve system reliability and testability\nPartner with Platform and DevSecOps teams to build automated quality gates, release verification, and quality metrics dashboards\nContinuously refine automation coverage, performance, and reliability through experimentation and data-driven learning\nEngage with customers and support teams to understand real-world use cases and ensure quality automation reflects customer realities\nEvangelize quality engineering practices across the organization through documentation, workshops, and internal community leadership\nQualifications\nExperience and Background\n10+ years of software engineering or quality automation experience in large-scale, enterprise-grade systems\nProven success designing and implementing automation frameworks across multiple platforms and architectures\nDeep knowledge of modern test automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Jest, etc.) and integration with CI/CD systems\nStrong background in software architecture, APIs, and event-driven systems, with an understanding of how to design for testability and observability\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted testing tools or frameworks (e.g., code generation, model-based testing, or anomaly detection in test data)\nExperience in cloud-native environments, ideally AWS, with understanding of infrastructure automation and quality validation at deployment\nHands-on experience with Extreme Programming (XP) or similar collaborative practices such as TDD, pairing, and continuous delivery\nExposure to event-driven architectures, microservices, and contract testing\nStrong understanding of data-driven quality metrics and DORA-style performance measures\nExperience working with cross-functional teams in complex environments 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