# Principal QA Engineer

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Principal QA Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Europe. Our client is a comprehensive tax filing software company that offers a wide range of features. As a Principal QA Engineer, you will define the testing angles (functional, end-to-end, API, contract, performance, and synthetics), decide how much to invest in each, and build them out using AI coding assistants. The role calls for someone with strong opinions on how testing should be done, who acts as the owner and driver of quality and leads the team toward a clear end state. The right person is a self-directed QA leader who can take a loosely defined platform, set a clear test strategy, and build it out hands-on without being guided. They are fluent in modern API quality (public and internal APIs, contract testing, versioning, performance in CI/CD, and AI model and agent testing) and use Docker and AI coding assistants, such as Cursor or Claude, every day, by choice. Requirements Daily use of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude, or similar) as part of regular work, and genuine enthusiasm for them. Concrete examples of using AI to generate, refactor, and maintain test c

- **Id**: 3964778
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/svitla-systems-principal-qa-engineer>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: unspecified
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T13:18:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:31:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4582
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DevOps & Platform Engineering, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 2216
- **Name**: Svitla Systems
- **Domain**: svitla.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/svitla-systems>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.8
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **DeepEval** — Optional: yes
- **Gatling** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **JMeter** — Optional: yes
- **k6** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Locust** — Optional: yes
- **Pact** — Optional: yes
- **Playwright** — Optional: yes
- **Promptfoo** — Optional: yes
- **Ragas** — Optional: yes
- **Testcontainers** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T13:31:57Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T14:22:33Z

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