Principal Quality Engineer

Who are we?

A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway's insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet, and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.

We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value diversity of backgrounds, experience, and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized.

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Job Opportunity:

BHSI is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Principal Quality Engineer to serve as the permanent, single threaded owner of Quality Engineering (QE) for the global Surety platform. This is a high impact leadership role responsible for safeguarding platform quality across the entire product lifecycle-global expansion, continuous evolution, production operations, and long-term modernization.

You will architect and mature the QE practice, collaborate deeply with engineering, product, operations, underwriters, and vendor partners, and ensure the Surety platform meets the highest standards of functional reliability, performance, automation maturity, and production stability. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth, strategic thinking, and hands-on leadership of modern quality engineering disciplines. This role leverages GenAI‑enabled enterprise test automation, quality analytics, performance engineering, data‑validation frameworks, and production observability to drive scalable, intelligent quality outcomes.

You will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership to architect, implement, and scale modern testing platforms.

Duties & Responsibilities:

* Single‑Threaded Quality Ownership

Serve as the single‑threaded owner of QE for the global Surety platform, accountable for quality outcomes across build, run, and evolve phases.

* Quality Strategy & Governance

Define, own, and continuously evolve the platform quality and test strategy, including quality gates, release readiness criteria, and risk‑based decision‑making.

* Embedded Agile Quality Leadership

Act as an embedded quality leader within Agile teams working with product and engineering to ensure testability, clear acceptance criteria, and informed quality decisions throughout release cycles.

* Enterprise Test Automation & CI/CD Integration

Establish automation as a core engineering capability, leading the design and integration of enterprise‑scale automated testing into CI/CD pipelines across UI, API, integration, and data layers.

* Test Data & Environment Strategy

Own test data and environment strategies, including synthetic data, masking, seeding, and ensuring stable, representative environments in partnership with Dev Ops.

* Platform Risk Coverage

Ensure appropriate quality coverage based on platform risk, spanning functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing.

* Performance & Scalability Assurance

Define performance benchmarks and SLAs, oversee load and stress testing aligned to real‑world usage, and proactively prevent performance degradation.

* Production Quality & Observability

Own the quality dimension of production monitoring and observability, including business‑critical workflows, data integrity, incident response, and post‑incident remediation.

* Quality Metrics & Continuous Improvement

Define, track, and communicate meaningful quality metrics to improve delivery confidence, reduce defects, and drive continuous improvement.

* Practice Building & Team Leadership

Build and mature the…